The Future of Electrolysis - Just Imagine!!

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#1

I am currently undergoing electrolysis of my upper arms - with excellent results so far. During the many hours I have undergone electrolysis I have wondered about making an advanced automated electrolysis machine -

Basically, it would have an optical microscopic sensor that would gauge the angle of the hair shaft. A modified electrolysis needle (mounted to an mechanical arm with multiple degrees of freedom at the tip) would rapidly be inserted into the follicle at the calculated angle - the depth of insertion would be determined by pressure and depth (based on electrical impedance). The hair in the treated follicle would then be removed by a the same mechanical arm with an extremely rapid and precise set of tweezers.

All of this would be done at extremely fast speeds - If something like this were to be a reality - it would launch electrolysis into the stratosphere - as the time aspect would no longer be an issue - and operator experience would no longer be a factor in success…

Thouhts?

#2

You are talking about highly technical robotic machinery. I am not saying it is not possible, just not sure if anyone could afford to pay for this machinery, the cost to the end user would be astronomical.

#3

I’d also be concerned about how immobile one would have to be during the procedure.

#4

[color:#009900]I kind of imagine the plastic surgery machine in that old sci-fi movie “Logan’s Run”. -Doesn’t it go crazy on the lady or something?

-I think the “Future of Electrolysis” is just our good ol’ James working a little harder, a little grayer, and a little more antsy when his clients show up for appointments dehydrated.

Nothing worth making a movie out of, unless you want to sit through 90 minutes of lecture on not smoking or drinking coffee, …and the occasional appearance of Mike Bono playing Darth Vader

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#5

I’d also be concerned about how immobile one would have to be during the procedure.

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…Yeah, especially if you went in for a full brazilian. That’d be kind of scary wouldn’t it. :grin:[/color]

#6

I don’t think the future lies with electrolysis but more with lasers. With even better technology the right amount of laser energy, pulse length etc for better control. Skin sensors for setting the laser to the right setting for light/darker skin. New crystals for lasers will be developed so different frequencies for lasers.

#7

You may be right but I won’t hold my breath waiting for that day to come, and I won’t be hanging up my probe holder anytime soon. About 50% of my work is on people who spent a lot of money on laser hair removal and saw little or no reduction in growth and in a lot of cases believe that they ended up with more hair.

#8

I cringe just thinking about that lol

#9

Therese, Touche! I also do not see electrolysis going away any time soon.

#10

Smartreader something more efficient and probably faster than what you describe is already in existence. It’s called a Josefa :wink:

#11

The robotics technology required to produced automated electrolysis treatments would not be cost effective - it will NOT happen! The 1947 prediction that a helicopter would be in every garage by 1975 did not come to pass. Was it even remotely possible? Yes! But it was NOT practical. Lasers have pretty much reached the end of the line. The wavelengths cannot go up or down, if so the energy goes where it is not wanted or needed. Other suggested modifications have already been done without significant improvements to the process. Lasers will never be able to target gray or blonde hair. The entire process is based on selective thermolysis, which cannot happen if the hair shaft is devoid of natural pigment. The future electrolysis lies with education, training and clients with sufficient motivation to show up on time and follow through.

#12

Which means that You do not understand at all the physics underlying laser epilation. There are limitations which cannot be surpassed (but would surely have been if it was possible.)

There is simply a small frequency band where (pale) skin does not absorb light. Which means that light can pass into the target area (more or less - there are inherent issues of depth of penetration) and if the light finds a target in the follicle absorbing it and producing the heat needed to do flash thermolysis, e.g. a sufficient amount of dark melanin in the target area, photoepilation will work well.
If the skin is to dark or the hair is to light, theer is no way beyond theknown workarounds - signal shape and duration, adding chromophores to the follicles - everything has already been tried.

@smartreader:

All of this would be done at extremely fast speeds

Please note that there may be a too fast. If You as an electrologist exceed a certain limit, the pain will just “press the client down” leading to dehydration. It happens occasionally and i need to slow down a bit when it happens.

Your proposal strongly reminds me to a novel by Franz Kafka: In der Strafkolonie - http://nicolehf-literatur.blogspot.de/2010/12/kafka-in-der-strafkolonie.html

#13

lol awesome answer. Personally I think the future lies with electrologists, if many more were like josefa and Michael, automatically, there is a reduction in treatment time surely. I mean, follizap is a prime example that the josefas and Michaels can make a difference to the industry. ultimately, some things are meant to take time. what’s a week’s worth of treatment compared to living with a problem for life and failed laser treatments.