App-connected toothbrushes bring new privacy concerns to the bathroom.
  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    67·
    4 months ago

    One of the rare cases where this is a serious option: just don’t buy it. People say that for phones that spy on you, but that’s ridiculous because that is quite hard for some people. This is not. Use a regular toothbrush. Duck tape a vibrator motor to the handle if you really feel like that helps. You don’t need the ai, and it is unlikely that you will only ever be able to buy ai toothbrushes.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      15·
      4 months ago

      As a man with ADHD and poor oral hygiene, I need to get one of these just so that the assistant in my toothbrush gets lonely and depressed.

      Just when things are starting to get their most bleak, I’ll use it to scrub my toilet.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
        7·
        4 months ago

        I fucking hate brushing my teeth. I cannot understand how so many people seem to just willingly do it like multiple times a day. How do they deal with the feeling of open revolt that washes over every cell in your body when thinking of teeth brushing?

        • Fallofturkey@lemmy.world
          15·
          4 months ago

          After my first cavity and filling, and the pain of chewing on that side again it was all the motivation I needed to brush and floss first thing every morning, and then brush before bed no matter how much I hate it.

        • minnix@lemux.minnix.devOPEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          Complete opposite here. I love it. Even flossing. Such a great feeling when your teeth are white and squeaky clean.

          • Hegar@fedia.io
            7·
            4 months ago

            a great feeling when your teeth are … clean.

            Yeah I’ve had people describe such a feeling but I’ve never experienced it. Closest I’ve experienced is a pleasant feeling of knowing it’s the maximum time before I have to endure that again.

            white

            I was not raised in the US so that artificial wall of unnaturally blinding white teeth has no value to me. TBH it seems like foot binding, neck-extension or cranial deformation - an extreme status marker that’s fascinating from an anthropological perspective.

            • minnix@lemux.minnix.devOPEnglish
              7·
              4 months ago

              artificial wall of unnaturally blinding white teeth

              My teeth are white because I take care of them by brushing and flossing every day, going to the dentist regularly, and I don’t smoke. In other words, just by normal oral hygiene. How being responsible and taking care of your body is comparable to neck extension or cranial deformation doesn’t make sense.

              • Hegar@fedia.io
                4·
                4 months ago

                I wasn’t trying to comment specifically on you or your teeth, it’s just one of those weird things that people notice about our culture, but people from here don’t realize is not the same in other cultures.

                normal oral hygiene

                Cranial deformation is just normal infant care in groups where it’s practiced.

                Many western cultures practice dental hygiene in a way that doesn’t produce the “bleached wall” look that so many in US culture deem high-status. Teeth slowly change color and natural misalignments develop with less need to artificially modify that.

                Teeth in the US are just a way more important site of identity than elsewhere. When people make fun of the US, teeth are often part of it because it’s something we’re way more intense about than other people are.

        • MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee
          7·
          4 months ago

          Take care of your teeth. If you get problems, it hurts like a bitch, it can ruin you day, every day for years. It’s also expensive as hell. Take care of them, the best that you possibly can.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          3·
          4 months ago

          Try different toothpastes. The very popular ones (Crest, Colgate) I find treacly sweet and disgusting, and I fucking hate mint anything. Arm and Hammer is my go to for that bland goodness. YMMV.

          • Hegar@fedia.io
            3·
            4 months ago

            I use an unsweetened charcoal toothpaste, it’s definitely the least unappealing one I’ve found.

          • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            For me it’s a texture problem. I didn’t notice until I was prescribed some high fluoride stuff that’s a mildly minty blue gel which is infinitely preferable to most toothpastes I’ve tried (for those curious, it’s a Colgate 5000ppm fluoride toothpaste, prescribed by my dentist because of temperature sensitivity)

        • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          You are a disgusting person who no one wants to be around. We deal with it by avoiding people like you

          • Hegar@fedia.io
            2·
            4 months ago

            Jokes on you - I’m quick to smile, non-judgemental and a patient conversationalist! 😊 The last time someone have you a compliment in public it might’ve been me and you’d never know! 😘

        • thefartographer@lemm.ee
          3·
          4 months ago

          I pray to leave long enough to see the civil war between the AIs trying to decide whether I should live or die because I find it funny to be nice to some and sadistic to others

    • IllNess@infosec.pub
      6·
      4 months ago

      Hopefully they don’t creep up on all toothbrushes like how Smart TVs replaced dumb TVs.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      4 months ago

      There’s no way in hell I will ever own a toothbrush with any sort of connectivity, but electric toothbrushes really are pretty great. Teeth feel way cleaner.

      I’ve heard the sonic ones are amazing because they can clean the pockets between the gum and tooth… never had the money for that though.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    64·
    4 months ago

    Lol i named myself “AI Toothbrush” on a bunch of platforms way back in like 2018 before all the ai shit and its kinda coming back at me.

    • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
      11·
      4 months ago

      Not for long with the GoonMaxxer T-1000, the ultimate AI regulated motorized jerk off solutions to increase your gooning productivity!

      • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        I’m not an adventurous person. I haven’t been to a sex shop at home in decades so I don’t keep up with what’s available out there. But on vacation in Tokyo in 2023, I was at a four story sex shop in Akihabara. The top floor is exclusive to men, no women allowed up there. There are all sorts of fuck dolls and the more intense, expensive dude stuff up there.

        Now, what I was not mentally prepared for was the glass display case. I don’t remember much about what else was in the case but the thing that caught my eye was what I can only call “The Device.”

        The Device was a very inelegant metal machine that in any other context I would have assumed was some kind of kitchenware. But it had a nozzle on the end and it was incredibly obvious what The Device was there to do. This was not a nice machine, it was a tool with one purpose. I imagine it was incredibly good at that, too.

        I was tight on cash for that trip and this thing was listed at 45,000 yen, which was about $375 at the time. I joked with my friends that it would be well worth it. It would have been difficult to get home due to size and I imagine heft. I would have taken The Device back to our rental house and let it suck the soul out of my body. I would have died on that trip and would have had no regrets.

        I went back to the same store earlier this year and the glass case had other things in it, The Device nowhere to be found. Someone bought it, took it home, and was claimed by its power. The shelves of the top floors of that shop are now sleek looking plastic and silicon jerk machines that look very user friendly; exactly what you’d expect from a sex toy. But they are probably nothing compared to The Device.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      No, the DRM prevents you. You’ll need to subscribe to the premium toothbrush package.

  • ramenu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Jokes aside, what practical purpose does this actually serve…?

  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
    20·
    4 months ago

    Hahaha. Not for my fucking teeth. I’ll use a wire brush before I use a fucking AI toothbrush.

  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    15·
    4 months ago

    I just have an electric toothbrush that stays on for 2 mins and pulses every 30 sec to let me know to switch to a different “quarter” of my teeth. That’s literally all the smarter it needs to be. Why the fuck is AI being added.

  • andreas@lemmy.kfed.org
    5·
    4 months ago

    this ‘AI’ all the things stuff really reminds me of the ‘smart’ all the things trend from a few years back… sooner or later people will realize exactly what should and should not be connected like this… like ‘smart/ai’ rice cookers and washing machines… and toothbrushes… like WHY??

      • EtherWhack@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        That’s sorta my point.

        IIRC, the 2 minutes is the bare-minimum, and intended for someone with perfect teeth and technique. Now most people (ones who aren’t perfect) use the toothbrush, their common reaction to the timer completing is they are done brushing. They don’t realize that they were likely rushing to keep up with the timer and ignoring different plaque hot spots.

        I personally have a couple crowns that my previous dentist screwed up on and mis-sized the base, leaving a ledge where food and plaque get stuck in. If I don’t spend extra time around them, tatar will form like a madman. (Same issue with my lingual bar before I had it removed)

        I’m alright with a timer to help keep rhythm and let you know when you hit the minimum, but don’t make it integral to using the damn brush and turn it off when it hits zero.