Cousin Festus' house the other day and he took me into the workshop and showed me his latest invention. He took a prime silvertip brush and reworked the puck and mounted it in a plexiglass handle. But you see what he did is mounted the puck with a pressure plate attached to a lightbulb in the handle and a circuit from a dead man's throttle from a diesel locomotive and with a battery compartment and when you shave you select the mode you want. lather creation, face lathering, bowl lathering, lathering in general.Then he has an infrared sensor with an electric eye and this is to analyze the water to determine the turbidity and hardness and temperature and the characteristics of the soap you are using. All this is fed into a microprocessor and as you apply pressure the light tells you just the correct amount of pressure to apply to make the best lather.
We tried it out and it worked flawlessly. The best lather I've ever seen from a puck of cheap hand soap. The only little problem is the brush handle is 18 inches tall and weighs 5 pounds. But he's working on miniaturizing it and by Christmas time he expects to have it ready for sale.
He says the man from Gillette has already contacted him. Something about modifying it so it comes loaded with soap which could be exchanged like the magazine in a semi-auto so you could have the brush with any Gillette soap you want.
It's gonna come with the Colt insignia and will be called the Colt .45 Semi automatic shave brush. He just has to figure out how to automatically eject the spent soap rounds without them hitting you in the face.
