"Hi Joe, Sorry to read about your disappointment. You have a valid point. It is actually something we have thought about and came up with several solutions (and prototypes) for during the design process (which took place in a period of 3 years - not 3 actual years of full-time work). You are correct that it will come in the form of a tool. It will most likely be small ejector pad in the form of an embossed area in the packaging of the blades - an addition to the packaging that will have minimal impact on the packaging's volume and material use (if any impact at all). Most cartridge based shaving systems produce a gigantic amount of waste. It starts with the bulky blister packs they are often sold in, goes on with the plastic case the cartridges are stored in (which have no use after cartridges have all been used) and ends up with the cartridges themselves which are an assembly of rubber (often 2K folded with plastic), plastic, metal and lubrication strip(s) - which make them difficult to recycle. The RZR tries to achieve the opposite. It tries to produce as little waste as possible. The waste it does produce (all metal) can hopefully be seperated in most waste processing facilities and then recycled.  So yes, it will take a bit more care to replace the blades in a RZR as the sharp edges are exposed (similar to replacing a blade on a safety razor or x-acto knife). In addition it indeed does require some sort of 'tool'. This tool will actually be part of the blades' packaging. It most likely isn't the kind of tool you will lose as it is part of the packaging; if you don't have a pack of spare blades with you it means you likely do not have a need to open the RZR as you will not have a new blade to insert into the RZR. The fact that the tool is part of the blades' packaging also means that with each package of replacement blade you get a new tool. It is correct that blade replacement works a bit different from most shaving systems on the market today - but I do not think it will lead to a bad usage experience. It is unfortunate that the packaging hasn't been designed yet - and the ejector system prototypes (quite crude proof of concept prototypes) aren't in the materials that ended up in the Kickstarter campaign. As they are both important aspects of RZR's usability. I hope this gives you some insight in the thinking behind the aspect of RZR's design you (understandably) found to be disappointing. Cheers!- Patrick "