toothbrush flappy bird?
I gamified my brushing too, by combining it with leg exercises. I do one leg quarter squats, 30 per leg per mouth quadrant. I started with only calf raises, but that got boring quick.
Gamification of teeth brushing
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Re: Gamification of teeth brushing
#22Getting kids to brush better can be fun and this product seems to hit that point very well. However, from my experience as a parent of an 8yo, phones and tablets around a basin of water for too long spells disaster. I don't want a product that would require me to hover over my kid while he's brushing his teeth.
There are bathroom kits to prevent damaging the smartphone. I think there is a video of it being used somewhere on the page too (The demo video)
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#23Appropriately enough, it uses Bluetooth... The idea isn't new though, this just seems to be aimed at a younger demographic. http://www.oralb.co.uk/en-GB/electric-toothbrush-with-blueto... However, there's something about holding a toothbrush in one hand and a smartphone in the other that... just doesn't feel right to me. Edit: gamification of toothbrushes for the young ones has been done before too: http://www.usvigi…
I suppose the difference is what they use the data from the toothbrushes for. OralB produces pretty dashboards with the information while this is a game. I suppose this is closer to your rainbow example.
Another difference would be that this is not a toothbrush in itself so it can be used with multiple manual toothbrushes.
I would agree that holding the smartphone in the other hand is a bad idea. It would be better to prop it up against something or use one of the bathroom kits showed in the video on the page.
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#24Possibly inspired by Jesse Schell's fantastic DICE2010 talk: https://youtu.be/9NzFCfZMBkU?t=2m15s
Interesting talk. Love the multiple examples of the same concept!
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#25First, there is no way I'm going to put my several hundred dollar smart phone/tablet on the sink, especially with my not exactly neat or careful 7 year old.
Second, this won't fit on his Sonicare. It already has a timer and plays musical notes though, so I don't see that we would want this anyway.
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#26Maybe unrelated with the product, but I think that the whole problematic of brushing your teeth is still a tabu on many environments (such as corporate). If you see someone brushing their teeth after a meal, chances are you will be looked jokingly and a joke about it is going to fall on your lap.
Now imagine that on bathrooms we could have something that would tell everyone that "washing your teeth is cool!". Like having tooth paste available, just like soap. Better yet, if there is a critical mass of people in the company that washes their teeth, than the whole company might start doing it!
It kind of sucks that you have to feel like a criminal when you wash your teeth and people are just passing by with judgmental looks.