Oral B’s Smart Series Puts a Tiny Dentist in Your Toothbrush


OralB“There’s an App for that!”, a phrase that would have sounded foreign at best a decade ago, is now a commonality that seems to hold true for nearly everything. The next area of technology to be reinvented by our app-savvy world? Oral hygiene. Yes, you heard it right folks – technology is moving into our mouths. Much like the fitness tracking apps that record your activity and provide the results of your runs, walks, skips and jumps around town, the Smart Series brush seeks to track and monitor your brushing habits.

OralB1The British will be the first to receive this hygienic little gadget (insert any joke you’ve ever heard about the Brits having bad teeth here – there were simply too many for me to choose from). According to research from Oral B, about 25% of Britons don’t brush properly, with almost 33% not even brushing the recommended twice daily. Enter the Smart Series Electric Toothbrush, which uses Bluetooth 4.0 to communicate with an accompanying smartphone app. The idea, as Oral B puts it, is to “improve brushing efficiency”, by getting people to brush smarter. The app, which will be available on iOS next month and on the Android in August, can be programmed with the brush to focus on particular areas of cleaning. The brush itself has six different cleaning modes – daily clean, deep clean, whitening, gum care, sensitive, and tongue cleaning – to make sure you receive a “whole-mouth cleaning experience”.

OralB2If I haven’t totally lost you in a boring haze of smart oral hygiene, there are a couple of neat-o factors associated with the app and brush combo. For example, the app times your brushing routine at the top of your smartphone screen while offering news and weather reports below. Additionally, the app works with your toothbrush and lets you know when to move on to different areas of your mouth, as well as notifying you if you’re putting too much pressure on your teeth. The end goal of Oral B’s Smart Series is for dentists to be able to review the collected data from the toothbrush and tailor the right oral routine for the user based on the app’s results. Don’t count on being able to get your hands on it anytime soon though – no word on a US (or any other country, for that matter) release date has been mentioned as of yet. For now, we’ll all have to settle for our friends across the pond having access to technology that may finally nullify an all-too-commonly true stereotype. Get your jokes in while you can – they may soon be a thing of the past.

Topics: Technology News Gadgets & Peripherals Inventions & Innovations

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