Brushing your teeth with your phone? That’s new. It does not exactly sound appealing when you first think about it but if smartphones are smart enough to help us with our fitness routines they should be smart enough to deal with our daily battle against tooth decay. The folks that gave us Oral B’s SmartSeries 5000 electric toothbrush sure think so. The comparisons to fitness aiding gadgets like the Sony Smart Whatch 3 comes naturally because like these, Oral B’s SmartSeries 5000 electric toothbrush works in tandem with a smartphone app to ensure that your daily routine, in this case with regards to guarding against cavities, is always up to standard.
This is a useful gadget to have if you can afford the 199$ dollar price-tag because the ins and outs of proper dental care can sometimes be more arcane than any fitness routine especially when your dentist gives you special advice in one issue or another. Another thing this particular esoteric gadget will help with is just dealing with one’s busy schedule. The speed of modern life means many of us are inclined to shave some extra minutes off our daily routines without even noticing. This device helps us to consistently and objectively keep track of the time in such cases.
Oral B’s SmartSeries 5000 also provides statistics proper long term analyses of it’s function. Also available are achievements for proper use. While this may seem a bit silly it does give tangible short-term “rewards” for proper toot-brushing, an activity that only shows its effects in the long term. Fortunately, the brush works when one’s phone isn’t present for the brushing session. It pulses in the handle and shines a yellow flashing LED when it is time to switch to a part of the tooth cleaning cycle. It stores information on up to 20 sessions within the handle so that, when a connection to the smartphone app is made, the history was automatically synced.
There are extra features linked to keeping the phone in one’s field of vision while brushing as the app attempts to keep the user’s attention with oral tips, news headlines and even your calendar events. This device may not be vital but then what new smartphone gizmo is? It does however help make an often easily sacrificed daily ritual vital to our long-term health more effective overall.