Panasonic Arc 5 Palm Shaver Review: Japanese Steel

What is this texture, I wondered, and why did I like it so much? I don't want to be the sort of person who gushes about a new kind of plastic. But here I am holding a new luxury travel shaver from Panasonic, catching feelings about it. The white version of Panasonic's Arc 5 Palm, a compact shaver released in September in the US but much earlier in Japan, is made with a newly developed material called Nagori, made from the concentrated minerals of seawater—a common byproduct of desalination plants. Nagori is a plastic that feels organic. It is, if anything, the texture of seashell. Or a stone, washed at the bend of a river until it takes on the character of marble. The black Arc 5 palm is not made of Nagori, and so I can't have any of these feelings about it. But in general, the Arc 5's compact form is also oddly elegant for a travel shaver. So is the little vanity-sized pouch it travels in. But the simple feeling of the white shaver in my hand is the main thing I like about it, molde ... Read full article.