Dyson Built A $499 AI Flossing Toothbrush With A Camera To Blast Away Plaque
Dyson has entered the oral hygiene game with the CameraJet, a tech-heavy electric toothbrush that mounts an endoscopic camera and a fluid jet at the brush head to shoot mouth rinse between your teeth. With this gadget, the vacuum giant intends on solving the age-old flossing issue, but is the solution worth $500?
Known for turning hair dryers and dust collectors into high-concept (and some would argue overpriced) luxury goods, Dyson spent six years and assigned 661 engineers plus 30 dental professionals to address a startling statistic: nine out of 10 people do not floss regularly (I don't).
As the name implies, the toothbrush has a 100,000-pixel macro camera situated just beneath the bristles. The system runs a machine-learning framework dubbed "Gap Optical Targeting," which was trained on nearly half a million dental images. As you sweep the brush across your teeth, the camera analyzes 28 live images every...
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