A world where your dental habits are improved but not judged is on the way, as the makers of a smart toothbrush skip some of the smarts for a lower priced model.
Improvements to technology tend to happen everywhere, many of which can improve your smile. A better phone with a better camera can make you smile, and recent phones with those great cameras can even take a picture when you say “smile”.
But some gadgets are actually built with the idea of improving your smile on the whole. Toothbrushes, specifically.
In recent years, toothbrushes have been getting a little smarter, as technology makers work out what to do with them beyond simply giving them a motor and more speed.
AI is the most recent inclusion: it’s in everything these days, so why not a toothbrush that can help improve your smile, too.
While artificial intelligence might be able to give you a tip or two in how to improve your brushing, it also might be a little on the judgemental side, something we learned reviewing Oclean’s X Ultra S, citing it as a judgy toothbrush.
The company’s latest model might do away with those targeted insights, offering a similar take sans-intelligence in the X Pro Digital. The idea is similar, offering an electric toothbrush with a small colour touchscreen and a six-axis gyroscope to track its position in your mouth, complete with an app to tell you how you’re going.
You can be graded on your brushing using both the screen and the app, with the screen pointing out where you need to improve your brushing overall. Meanwhile, the app offers customisable brushing modes, a timer, and is designed to help smiles with a motor capable of achieving 84,000 brush movements per second for a greater clean.
Like its predecessor, it’s water resistant, offers up to 30 days of battery life, and charges wirelessly with a USB-C charging pad, even being compatible with Apple Health. However, it’s also a little less expensive, fetching a local price of just under $300 for an insight-less toothbrush.
If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t need insights from your toothbrush — and that might be most people — you’ll find the Oclean X Pro Digital in select stores across Australia shortly.
