Dyson Blasts Into Dental Care With a $499 Camera-Equipped Toothbrush
Taking care of our teeth is a straightforward process: brush, floss, rinse, done. But with its new CameraJet toothbrush, launched on Tuesday, Dyson wants to simplify the process. The toothbursh has an AI-powered camera that detects gaps between teeth so it can floss while you brush.
“Our research has shown that people consistently miss the areas where plaque forms: the gaps between teeth,” Founder and Chief Engineer James Dyson said in a press release. “We wanted to solve three fundamental problems: how to see those gaps, remove plaque and how to improve cleaning performance while brushing.”
A camera for capturing your pearly whites
The toothbrush’s camera uses a 100,000-pixel macro lens with a light. It’s powered by the company’s trademarked AI machine-learning algorithm, Gap Optical Targeting, which was trained on 470,000 dental images collected by Dyson during development.
Gap Optical Targeting analyzes 28 live images per second to detect gaps...
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