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dumbest waste of materials. for what? just to waste more battery when i travel with it without a charger?
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The toothbrush doesn't force you to change the head. You can brush your teeth with an old head as much as you want.
Mine doesn’t just blink; it keeps doing this annoying fast vibrate/noise whenever I stop brushing. So I was reading the article really hoping for an easy jailbreak at the end.
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The toothbrush doesn't force you to change the head. You can brush your teeth with an old head as much as you want.
Mine doesn’t just blink; it keeps doing this annoying fast vibrate/noise whenever I stop brushing. So I was reading the article really hoping for an easy jailbreak at the end.
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> The other day I was trying to buy a pair of bathroom scales and it took me far too long to find one that just, you know, weighed things without also demanding I connect it to the Wi-Fi and download a smartphone app. How is this an improvement? First site I went to, first search term I tried. https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=scales
Also the first results on Amazon UK...
I guess this is one of the downsides of ubiquitous cheap electronics --- DRM everywhere. A similar thing happened relatively recently with label printers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30420918 (...and people have come up with a "modchip" to bypass that restriction already: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/dymo-550-thermal-print... ) All my tries to guess to one-way function for generating the passwords f…
If anyone happens to be looking for an open source alternative label maker https://github.com/andreisperid/E-TKT
Me, dumb: I change my Sonicare toothbrush head whenever it tells me to. I haven’t had a cavity in 8 years. You, a clever toothbrush-hacking genius: haha, the head is new again! This is neat, and I find the process of reverse engineering the Sonicare toothbrush fascinating, especially sniffing the NFC communication, but please change your toothbrush head every three months.
Yes, I realize I might be in the minority here, but isn't this actually great use of a smart device? Not having to keep track of brush head changes, awesome! One less thing to worry about, as the device is smart enough to tell me when it's time for a new one.
Great article, the most interesting part of which is that you can lock your self out of your toothbrush head after three wrong password attempts. I didn't dig into the data sheet for the NFC chip very deeply, but I imagine that it's just the default that the chip ships with. Or maybe Philips really wants that $25 for a new toothbrush head. :-) EDIT: nope, not the default. From the data sheet, last sentence: "To preve…