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>It connects to an mobile App using Bluetooth that tells you how well you brushed your teeth, shows the orientation in real-time, and also notifies you when to
by beervirus 6y ago
>It connects to an mobile App using Bluetooth that tells you how well you brushed your teeth, shows the orientation in real-time, and also notifies you when to change the brush for a new one.
Of all the pointless internet-of-shit ideas. My toothbrush does not need an app.
- mc32 6y agoIt’s as if we hadn’t discovered mirrors yet.
- scrollaway 6y agoMirrors? You mean those webcam-connected monitors that livestream your image back to you after running image recognition to figure out how well you brushed your teeth?
- chki 6y agoI just had a weird realization that we are probably actually only 10-20 years away from people starting to use a webcam monitor combination instead of mirrors as a mainstream (albeit high-end) option.
- beervirus 6y agoIt adds 100 milliseconds of latency for no benefit, but it only costs $1000!
- FridgeSeal 6y agoAnd it’s sensitive to moisture! And requires power! And probably software updates. And at some point, it’ll start selling your data and showing you ads. And then one day the manufacturer will brick it remotely because they don’t want to support it anymore, even though it was still working.
- ArnoVW 6y ago.. and when inexorably it gets hacked it will get you your 15 Mb of fame.
- SubiculumCode 6y agowell benefit is that the fancy mirror can add filters to make you feel better about yourself :)
- klyrs 6y ago... that's weird... I've been using my smartphone like that since my extremely late 2015 adoption of the technology.
- chki 6y agoNo, I mean a scenario where instead of hanging a mirror in your high-end designed bathroom you are actually using a monitor. I can already imagine the advertisements in a catalogue where you are checking out the weather or watching CNN while brushing your teeth and it's all integrated.
- jaifraic 6y agoAnd I can imagine the advertisements on the mirror you have to look at while shaving. Or before. A quick message from our sponsors before your mirror sessions starts
- willcipriano 6y ago"Sorry I'm looking a bit out of sorts, my mirror had a update so I wasn't able to do my makeup this morning"
- selimthegrim 6y agoFor you, it was the day of your job interview for your first C-suite position. For us at Microsoft...it was Tuesday.
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- Fnoord 6y agoOne could use social media as their distributed mirror.
- bitwize 6y agoSome people use their cellphone as a pocket mirror to apply make-up in a pinch. So we're there already.
- archi42 6y agoSibling comments might want to search for "smart mirror" ;) though they're usually an actual mirror with an embedded display.
- pbuzbee 6y agoMy partner once received a toothbrush like this. I enjoyed the instruction manual's image showing someone using their phone instead of the mirror: https://imgur.com/a/VfT2WEl https://imgur.com/a/VfT2WEl
- Avamander 6y agoI like the Snapchat text box on top of it.
- lucb1e 6y agoAlternative interpretation: person is looking at the data in the app while brushing. Of course, it could also be a replacement mirror, but given that there are tiles drawn next to it and the phone holder is a suction cup on what vaguely looks like it might be a mirror, I doubt the phone is meant to be a mirror. Or am I missing the point here and is the message simply that one should be looking in the mirror rather than their phone while brushing teeth?
- Swizec 6y agoI own one of these toothbrushes. It’s a total gimmick and I never used the smart features. Here’s why: You need to look into the phone while brushing because it uses the front camera to do its thing. Pairing bluetooth and opening an app every morning is way way too much work for a 2min task. Screw that
- _-___________-_ 6y agoWhy does it unpair every day?
- echelon 6y agoHow does this stuff get funding? Why do humans use their brains for this?
- jaifraic 6y agoBecause other humans pay money for this. And we're probably not that far away from Health Insurance Companies using your toothbrush's data to calculate your rates.
- tomgp 6y agoThe problem being solved isn’t how to have cleaner teeth, it’s how to sell people more expensive toothbrushes when the existing options do the job perfectly adequately.
- userbinator 6y ago10 years ago, a Bluetoothbrush would be a joke, but now it's reality.
- Fnoord 6y agoI remember a good 20 years ago a joke being a remotely controlled vibrator. I believe it was called iBrator, or something akin to that. Fast forward, I saw it in a video the other day..
- Kaze404 6y agohttps://buttplug.io/ https://buttplug.io/
- taneq 6y agoNot only that but they’re hugely popular in camming. They hook them up to the tipping system to provide a form of viewer interaction.
- wruza 6y agoIt's called ohmibod, for those doing scientific research. Interesting at which point in time will youtube, twitch, pornhub and livejasmin merge into one big ...ing experience, that we yet have to invent adjective for. Worse, I remember a joke about buying a bottled water. Now they seriously shoot bottled water reviews on youtube and tap water is a health danger.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoIt still is a joke (of a product), it’s just that it’s now also a reality.
- cinntaile 6y agoIt doesn't say you need the app to use the toothbrush either? It's just a gimmick to charge a premium over a regular electrical toothbrush.