The toothbrush’s pressure sensor even knows if you’re pressing too hard, flashing a red light on the handle and a prompt in the app to ease up a little, there, tiger. If you do all that (and of course you will), you’re rewarded with achievement badges, and the app has neat graphs that show your brushing stats over the days, weeks, and months. Once that time is up, optional “focused care” settings can remind you to target any problem areas your dentist thinks need extra attention, as well as prompt you to floss, rinse with mouthwash, and even clean your tongue. The Oral-B SmartSeries Bluetooth 4.0 toothbrush pairs with a really well-designed app (iOS at first, Android later) that times your brushing session, encouraging you to go the whole recommended 2 minutes: that’s 30 seconds for each quadrant of your mouth.
BARCELONA-Ready to put the Internet of Things where your mouth is? (Sorry.) We were intrigued by the Kolibree smart toothbrush prototype at CES, but at Mobile World Congress, we brushed up against a connected toothbrush from Oral-B that will probably beat it to market-it’s scheduled to ship this June, at least in Europe, and should arrive in America later in 2014.
