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Many dermatologists have made small fortunes by deploying little machines from Cutera that remove body hair. These doctors charge up to $3,000 for a procedure that costs less than a tenth of that amount. The holy grail is to have a home based device that will let you zap off your own hair. There is [...]

Many years ago, there was this concept of piecework. Let’s say you were a manufacturer of knickknacks or whatever, and instead of setting up a factory and an assembly line, you wanted to save a few pennies. You would then give the raw materials to the workers, who would take it home, assemble it at [...]