If this were made in a way you could attach to any knife, I think it'd be cool. Sharpen your knife and add this module. I'm certain it's instead made to not detach, and you can only get the blade from them. If you sharpen it, you'll have to buy a new one from them at full price eventually. If they stop existing, it's just a dead product.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Unfortunately because of how ultrasonic transducers work you need an extremely rigid connection between it and the blade - otherwise it's like having a spring between the two and it completely negates the benefits of being ultrasonic. The easiest way to get that connection is just to weld the blade directly to the transducer. In a consumer application like this, where you're compromising on basically every aspect in order to fit the form-factor, the losses from a swappable blade would almost entirely negate the benefits of the system.

In short, to have even the moderately functional product they've got, there's no way for them to have swappable blades. The system just won't be powerful enough to compensate for the losses.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 22 hours ago

What anouy a vibrating sharpener? Then you can have mamy easily sharpened blades?