You forgot what sheety life those brush heads have. You want to enter my mouth every morning for 7 bucks a month? Exactly. Didn't think so.
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Review: Philips' Latest Sonicare FlexCare Platinum Brush Connects to Your iPhone via Bluetooth
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Apparently I'm missing out on the fun of paying 66 times as much for a toothbrush, cos I'm just a total neanderthal using my $3 brush digitally (i.e. hand) operated paired with a free dentist's pamphlet on proper brushing techniques.
Technology to the rescue again!
Technology to the rescue again!
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As predicted a lot of negativity in the comments.
Many people don't brush properly. This is Sonicare's attempt to train the user to brush properly. Effectiveness would need some peer-reviewed study to validate it, but it is an interesting idea.
Maybe Macrumors should limit the commenting to people that floss. That would cut down on the commenting.
Many people don't brush properly. This is Sonicare's attempt to train the user to brush properly. Effectiveness would need some peer-reviewed study to validate it, but it is an interesting idea.
Maybe Macrumors should limit the commenting to people that floss. That would cut down on the commenting.
In the future, we aren't going to be able to do anything on our own. Some computer will explain every single task to us and use AI to model the results and then compare the actual results for everything.
This thing is dumb. You want cleaner teeth without breaking the bank? Just buy this for $40: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AKGRTUM/. It has decent battery life (with charge warning indicator), 2 minute timer with 30 second intervals for each corner of your mouth, and has the same great vibration motor and brush options as the $200 models.
This thing is dumb. You want cleaner teeth without breaking the bank? Just buy this for $40: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AKGRTUM/. It has decent battery life (with charge warning indicator), 2 minute timer with 30 second intervals for each corner of your mouth, and has the same great vibration motor and brush options as the $200 models.
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Is there any way a bad SW update could turn it into a drill?
Why?
(Btw I use a Listerine REACH Interdental brush, that's the perfect brush, if Jony Ive designed a brush, it would be that, if marketing departments wouldn't exist, all brushes would be like this, some say that it was the ONLY brush admitted by Steve Jobs, Bruce McLaren and Elon Musk, everything that's different, actually makes a worse brush, it cleans much better and much faster than anything ever invented, and it's not the cheapest brush ever, but it's affordable, the brush actually lasts some time, the head is big and doesn't break, it's easy to hold, it doesn't slip, it doesn't come with a bazillion of colours and "3D" things that actually don't do anything, it is not over-designed, it comes in different colors so you don't mistake it for another family member's brush.
This is what I'm talking about, because there are multiple brushes branded as "REACH" trough the world:
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Reach is also good for cleaning toilets, just saying
You use a toothbrush... and a waterpik? How freaking big are your ears?
Myself, I just use a Q-Tip.
Maybe they are Ferengi?
Sonicare to the rescue. (Our hero.) I don't know, I think the flak this post is receiving is mainly due to the "silly" nature of the product and its crazy high price point. But hey, who am I to judge how folks part with their hard-earned income?
What a sad, silly, poor comment that is. But admitted, good recovery with the crickets. A deserved +1 like.
I'm going to venture a guess here that most folks who can afford to pay $200 for a bluetooth-enabled electric toothbrush, don't need teeth brushing education... Classic case of providing a solution to a non-existent problem in terms of the product's target demographic.
While part of it has to do with knowing what to do, a big part of it actually lies in execution and proper execution at that. Whether or not someone can afford a more expensive item has little relationship to those other things.
One could equate good education to a higher rate of discretional income which would allow a consumer to make such a purchase. Personally, I see little value in this product. But of course I live in a country that has relatively decent oral hygiene that is taught at a very young age. So I'm a little bias.
http://whoneedsoxygen.net/worldwide-oral-hygiene-top-5-worst-countries/
https://m.gapminder.org/news/which-country-has-the-best-teeth-in-the-world/
Well, again, knowing something and doing something are different things. One certainly helps the other, but it doesn't mean that many people are actually doing something or at least doing something correctly just because they know and understand it. Plenty of people rush through things or skip over parts or this or that, despite knowing better.
Funny how as soon as someone has a different opinion people often just end up going for nothing more than coming up with some sort of labels, even if supposedly disguised as a "joke" (and that, indeed, is some weak sauce).In theory sure (but that's some weak sauce). Are you a Sonicare sales rep?
In this battle of blanket statements and generalizations, let the sales figures decide the final verdict. So, who's buying the $200 Bluetooth brush!?Funny how as soon as someone has a different opinion people often just end up going for nothing more than coming up with some sort of labels, even if supposedly disguised as a "joke" (and that, indeed, is some weak sauce).
Silly to those that weren't part of the project. Silly if you imagine that you can decide a priori about the validity, or success of a product by simply reading the product description and having no knowledge of the market. Silly according to the discerning judgment of a group of people that consider themselves experts in things they've never systematically or in any serious way studied.
To those that think of design as conceiving a great idea and building it, they've clearly never thought much about creating things. I'm reminded of a graduate course in Research Through Design (hot design topic), which to many people on this forum would be judged as absolutely pointless and silly, but sometimes you need to throw yourself in and explore the materials, ideas, space, make a product and see how it is received. Without a process of exploration and research, even one that is product focused, it is difficult to know how a product will be received in the real world.
So maybe it is a product that is overpriced and of limited utility, but I think it is an important product in that they can learn how to create or refine future products. Failure is a great way to learn.