Ok, I'm going to have to retract my "me three".
After watching the video in the referenced thread and seeing that this thing gets hot enough to smoke I got a little nervous and looked up reviews on folica. There are quite a few negative reviews across the spectrum of products with the number one complaint being that hair gets tangled into the bristle holes and ripped out. The second major complaint is product defect (breaking/melting after a couple of uses).