The toothbrush of the future
Friday, June 19th, 2009 by Lard Boy
Okay so the 21st century may not have delivered on the flying cars just yet, but how about this, a PLASMA JET TOOTHBRUSH to scour away plaque from your teeth. Is this badass or what?
Oh yeah, it apparently doesn’t actually burn your flesh to a crisp either.
Neat.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Nifty. But it’ll take forever to move that thin beam across every tooth surface in the mouth, and how can you be sure that you don’t miss an area? See, those are the questions that need to be answered. So I guess you’ll mount a bunch of these plasma torches on a rotating head, kind of like an electrical toothbrush?
Would be faster if you could get some plasma mouthwash. Or more likely, a swarm of selfreplicating nanomachines that are programmed to only kill plaque.
June 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Actually we have bacteria killing nanomachines in our body already, white blood cells. I recall years ago a friend of mine (Who went on to become a doctor) that they’d found a way to make white blood cells attack tooth decay bacteria (Normally they don’t because they’re not actually directly attacking the body, just shitting acid on our enamel)
But I never heard about that one again so probably the international dentist conspiracy put a stop to it.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
“…makes Obi-Wan proud”
Looks like they’ve already cornered the geek market for it
June 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm
BTW, there’s nothing on the main page when you click “Community”… the only way you can get to posts is if you know to look down the far right corner to the tiny list of recent posts.