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." ...

If you hoped that the "George Clooney uses a Flowbee" narrative would go quietly into the night, you are sorely mistaken. In fact, "The Midnight Sky" star and director on Wednesday performed a live ...

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 ...

On Sunday, George Clooney opened up to CBS Sunday Morning about his career, his personal life, and his (alleged) preferred method of cutting his hair himself: with the ’80s vacuum haircut attachment ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In late 2020, amid a COVID-19 pandemic that has burdened many with the responsibility of cutting their own hair, actor George Clooney revealed that he uses the infomercial-famous, vacuum-based ...

We didn’t have “George Clooney endorses the Flowbee” on our pandemic bingo cards, but stranger things have happened. The A-list actor recently told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he’s long been cutting his ...