The vacuum-powered Flowbee haircutting system, a late-night infomercial product of the early 1990s, might be worth a second look thanks to the closure of barbershops as "nonessential businesses." ...

It feels like just yesterday, but about nine months ago, coronavirus cases were ticking up and non-essential businesses, including salons and barbershops, shut down. During this time, Google searches ...

The Flowbee, a home hair-cutting gadget from the '90s, is making a comeback mid-pandemic, but one tech-writer says a pair of hair-clippers attached to a vacuum cleaner is probably not going to give ...

Rick Hunts was once an obscure Southern California carpenter in need of a haircut. After work one day, while vacuuming sawdust from his hair, a vision came to him. “How nice it would be,” he imagined, ...

Trying to figure out how you’ll be getting your hair done, what with the coronavirus edicts shutting down barber shops and salons? Well. Join Jacque Coe, of Ballard, a long-time local public-relations ...

Like many great ideas, there is some confusion surrounding how California-based carpenter Rick Hunts was struck by inspiration for the Flowbee. The infomercial sensation of the late 1980s is a vacuum ...