iGrow Device Offers Hair Growth, Serves As Media Player Earphones Besides

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For those of you out there who have been watching the inexorable advance of your forehead until it reclaims your scalp, and wish you could actually do something about it, a new device from Apira Science plans to actually give you a tool to reclaim your lost hair. It’s the iGrow, and it’s about as bizarre as it sounds.

The iGrow uses a series of laser diodes–21 of them–and a matching set of 30 LED lights. The company says that it “matches the output of most clinical hair lasers” and even goes so far as to say it should result in “thicker, fuller and healthier” hair a matter of months. It’s even set to work for both men and women, so if you’re dealing with thinning hair this might well be the solution. And on the off chance that’s not enough, it even comes with a set of earflaps that double as headphones for your mobile media device of choice, be it iPod or other MP3 player (I’d guess it works with a 3.5 mm headphone jack).

I’m not a scientist, nor do I play one on TV, but this sounds spectacularly dodgy, especially in light of the fact that one of these costs $695. Though give Apira credit, they’re planning to offer a six month money back guarantee on this one, so giving it a shot and then discovering it doesn’t actually work would be the kind of problem that you could seemingly fix in short order.

On a certain level, though, it does make sense. Part of hair loss, or at least what I could gather from a Wikipedia article, involves the shrinking of hair follicles, and if you could open those back up, they’d be producing hair again. On the most basic of scientific levels, this approach does strike that note of plausibility, though dropping that kind of money on a shot in the dark doesn’t seem like the best of ideas on the surface, money back guarantee or no.