Flowbee

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The Flowbee is an electrically powered vacuum cleaner attachment made for cutting hair. It was developed and filed for patent in 1986 by Rick E. Hunts, a San Diego, California, US carpenter. US patent 4679322 was granted in 1987 and the product marketed since 1988. Hunts initially sold the Flowbees out of his garage before finding success with live demonstrations at a county fair. The product was advertised as being capable of performing "hundreds of precision layered haircuts" in frequently aired late-night television infomercials. By 2000, two million Flowbees had been sold. Hair cutting devices like the Flowbee are used by astronauts during spaceflight missions, including on the ISS, because hair particles are sucked into a container instead of floating freely inside the spacecraft in the absence of gravity. The standard Flowbee can be used to groom dogs with long hair such as Maltese or Bichon Frisé with a special pet-grooming attachment; a Flowbee Pet Groomer variant of the device...

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