Back hair has met its match.
Or has it?
This is the back blade.
And the Internet is obsessed with it.
The do-it-yourself back shaver has racked up 28 million views on Facebook.
Hi I'm Carl.
And I'm Chelsea.
We're testing out inventions to see if they live up to expectations.
We're here to find the answer to the most important question.
It's cool...
But does it really work?
So we're here in Union Square with the back blade.
Excuse me.
Does anyone have a hairy back!
Does this common complaint have such a simple solution?
Let's find out.
It's hard to even scrub your back or itch your back with one of those sticks, right?
How can you get every inch of your back, every little hair with this device.
And it has to have all the details and everything to make sure it work 100%.
I mean, how could it not work.
Oh, it's a lot smaller than I thought it would be.
Oh, I think you connect it and it extends.
The back blade is surprisingly sophisticated.
Here's how it works.
The major influencer would be my own experience.
When I was a young kid, I was in Chicago on the Northshore with a bunch of friends...
...at the beach, having fun in the summertime.
And one of my friends pointed out that I had a little bit of back hair.
He kind of had announced in front of a group of 20 people including girls.
So it was extremely embarrassing. I never forgot that.
The 2.0 has an ergonomic handle that reaches every single area you could probably possibly imagine...
...the lower half of the back from the inside out...
...as well as the top half of the back.
Each blade takes less abuse.
The blade cartridges are able to last longer.
Stay tuned. After the break, we're putting the back blade to the test.
So we're here in Union Square with the back blades.
And we're going to go find some people with hairy backs.
Let's go.
Hey, do either of you have a hairy back?
No? Ok.
Women don't like that.
Can we shave your dog?
It would be a good test.
If it can shave a dog, it can shave a back.
Maybe we should try it on me first.
This is literally the strangest thing I've ever done in my life.
Stop. You're so gross, you're so gross.
Hairy backs?
This man just shaved his chest for Facebook.
I didn't think we were gonna be able to find anyone to say yes...
...to take off their shirt and have them shave their back.
Excuse me, sir?
Hi, how are you?
Excuse me, sir.
One quick question.
Do you have a hairy back?
Excuse me?
Do I have a hairy back?
Yea?
Yea, I do actually.
You do have a hairy back.
So this is a back blade... back shaver...
...designed to help you shave your back by yourself.
So like this? Like a back scratcher?
Like a back scratcher.
Do you want to try it out for us?
Right here?
Right here.
Yea, why not? Live a little.
Take my shirt off here?
Yes.
What's your name again?
Christian.
Let's have some fun.
Ok, here we go.
Ok, yeah let's do this.
First we found a guy who was pretty into it.
Yeah, why don't you go ahead and take off your shirt for all these people.
That's pretty hairy.
His hair was pretty thick.
So you had to do a couple of runs over the same area.
All right, so it's easy.
Don't inhale.
Wait, watch out.
We got some blood.
He's bleeding.
Just a little bit.
Don't worry.
I thought it worked well.
So my experience with hairiness isn't that bad.
When you see this though.
Oh yea. Wow.
A little pull.
But it's coming out pretty clean. Look at that.
Yea, that's a clean pull.
There's some wind, there's some wind.
Everyone's super impressed.
Wow. Look at that. Look at the patches coming off.
You are a new man.
Wow.
How's the cleaning process right now.
Is it all coming off pretty easily or not so much.
No not really.
Maybe it's just because I have really think hair.
My girlfriend Emily, she shaves my back in the summertime...
...and she really complains about doing it so I might just pick this up for her.
I was definitely pretty impressed by how well it shaved a hairier back.
The one kind of concerned with that one of the guys said that it was a lot harder to clean than he had thought it'd be.
From the commercial it looked like you could just take this razor and dry shave your back in one sweep...
...and it would just be clean.
I would recommend it to someone with a hairy back to at least try out.
The part that gets tricky is when you can't see what you're shaving.
If you're going to call your glass unspillable, it better be unspillable.