Dyson’s Next Act Is an Electric Toothbrush With a Camera
Dyson has announced the CameraJet, an electric toothbrush that integrates an endoscope camera and machine learning to target and floss gaps between teeth. The device uses a conical fluid jet system to clean plaque more effectively than traditional water flossers.
Why it matters
This product represents a novel intersection of consumer health technology, computer vision, and machine learning in everyday household appliances.
On Tuesday, Dyson announced the CameraJet, a two-in-one electric toothbrush and flosser, to help you clean those pearly whites. It's not the company's first hybrid experiment (that would be the short-lived Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones), but as a pairing of two technologies, this makes far more practical sense—even if the word camera isn’t one you’d typically expect in the name of an oral device.
The CameraJet is an electric toothbrush with an embedded flosser that shoots liquid into the gaps between your teeth as you brush. How does the device know when the brush head is right above a gap that needs blasting? A built-in endoscope camera analyzes 28 images per second, shooting bursts of rinse as you move the device over your teeth.
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