Hair stuck in a hairbrush sitting by the sink is a particularly unsettling sort of memento mori, don't you think? There's the nails-on-a-chalkboard aspect, the my-god-the-bathroom's-a-mess-again and the cast-off-dead-thing bit. All rolled into one. To be confronted time and again until—. Sorry. But there it is. Philip B. is a genius for many reasons, but his latest invention, this small, pretty wire fan, cleans a brush in five seconds. Making quicker and more glamorous one of the least-glamorous chores on earth.