Not really excited for a $500 toothbrush, but this should have an awesome impact on the rest of the market.
Putting the word "camera" in the name seems pretty dumb, but who knows? Maybe I'm the dumb one.
Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
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#32"Clinically tested
Dyson CameraJet™ is clinically proven to be more effective in improving gum health by removing and preventing plaque buildup.² Vs a manual tooth brush. "
So they didn't dare compare it against a 20 EUR Braun Oral B?
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#33The water jet ruined my teeth. I would not advise anyone to use them. Edit: here are some anecdotes https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/d... Edit 2: It might be that I didn’t maintain it properly and the water reservoir was building up bio film over period of time and actively distributing bacterial to my gums.
How is that possible? Did you use extreme pressure that penetrated your gums? I use Waterpik every day, and my teeth are cleaner than ever.
Just a guess but perhaps what is in the water may also make a difference
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#34My dentist uses AI for X-ray analysis. I wish I remembered the name but the monitor was facing me and it was obvious. They also use some sort of fancy imaging tool that they run around my mouth to create a 3d image.
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#35Man marketing really screwed a great engineered product. 4k resolution mouth camera?? That's why we go to a dentist every 6 months because I wouldnt know wtf im looking at. "Oh there's that canker sore I feel. Huh, at least I can see it" Bruh, you don't need a camera for gap detection. Just stick an IR sensor, detect change in light. Boom, $0.05.
Presumably AI is going to process the images and detect issues and suspicious changes.
On paper it looks like a solid application of vision models.
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#36Do people on HN actually buy/like Dyson products?
My impression is they're actually way overpriced relative to their quality/value, and get away with it due to effective marketing and aesthetic design.
To be fair, I've never owned a Dyson product, but have used them, and they just seem meh at best.
Just really surprised to see a Dyson announcement get upvotes on HN.
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#37Never been less satisfied than having bought a Dyson vacuum. Cheap plastic construction
I bought a Dyson vacuum, or rather I was given one as a gift from my wife after she saw a joke twitter post about a man being happier about a new vacuum than the birth of his own kids. She gave it to me on Christmas Eve because I was about to vacuum the entire house with our old vacuum - which was also a fantastic vacuum, for the record.
My feedback:
1. It works great. I had to empty it several times because it was picking up so much more stuff than our existing vacuum did - mostly pet hair and the like.
2. It's the one with the little laser thing, which is a dumb little gimmick until you see it in action and then it's life-changing - if you're like me and find satisfaction in picking up every invisible crumb anywhere.
3. After a year and a bit, maybe less, it started misbehaving. It would suddenly turn off, then you'd have to let go of the trigger and pull it again; then it would work fine. Then it would happen a few times until it worked fine. Then it almost never worked fine. I kind of tolerated it for a while until I got fed up and googled the problem, and it was suggested to buy a new housing - the electronics plus the motor, basically the whole 'vacuum' part of the vacuum, which was only just over a hundred dollars direct from Dyson. Irritating to have to spend an extra hundred bucks to get my five hundred dollar vacuum working as expectred, but expected it to cost far more.
Would I recommend it? Not sure. It's very expensive, it works very well; it has a nice wall mount that charges it and which holds a small subset of the attachments it comes with. I'm glad I have it and I use it often.
Yes, it's plastic, but if it were, for example, steel or aluminium then it would be too heavy to use for any length of time. As it is, it feels very sturdy and has held up physically very well, but I'm obviously also not rough with it so there's no reason it would have any issues unless it were, in fact, cheaply or poorly made.
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#38Curious how much replacement heads will cost if they're going to stick an RFID in every single one. Surely there's a cheaper solution to track when you switched heads.
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#39lol, nice to see some engineering company building outlandish product. Not everything needs mass appeal, this is not for me but maybe some one finds this interesting
Their headphones with the air filtration was pretty wild, and surprisingly the headphones themselves are very comfortable and sound great.
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#40Never been less satisfied than having bought a Dyson vacuum. Cheap plastic construction
My wife often says the Dyson v8 vacuum is the best purchase I have ever made, that was 8 years ago.