Brushing your teeth with the help of your smartphone
Brushing your teeth well is important, as the dentist, the advertisement and the mother have always told us, not necessarily in that order. Taking advantage of this timeless teaching, the startup Kolibree presented on the occasion of the Consumer Electronics Show, a consumer electronics fair held annually in the United States, the first toothbrush that interfaces, through a special application, with the smartphones.
“Technology in the dental care industry has been at a standstill for years,” he said Loic Cessot, founder of Kolibree together with Thomas Serval, former executive of Microsoft and Google. “Our toothbrush” she added “aims to revolutionize the way we brush our teeth”. The Kolibree toothbrush has an internal sensor that detects how much bacterial plaque has been removed during the use of the toothbrush and, above all, which part of the dental arch still needs attention. The device also records the rhythm and intensity of the teeth cleaning operation, comparing them with those considered optimal. “When you use a normal toothbrush, even an electric one,” Cessot continues, “it is not possible to know how thoroughly you have managed to clean your teeth. It may not be more than 30%”. All the information collected is transmitted wirelessly to the smartphone, which stores it. An indispensable aid for parents, always comments Cessot, who can thus monitor the efforts of their offspring in keeping their teeth clean. The toothbrush, currently still in the prototype stage, will be launched on the market by 2014 with an expected price ranging from 99 to 200 US dollars.
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