From phones to glasses to keychains, it seems like there’s nothing the consumer tech industry won’t stick on the end of a camera. And now, Dyson, the English tech company famed for its household appliances, has launched a toothbrush with a built-in camera. The Dyson CameraJet uses what it calls Gap Optical Targeting to shoot jets of liquid between hard-to-reach gaps in teeth.
It does this by using a 100,000-pixel camera with a tiny macro lens to capture and analyze 28 images per second. Combining this with AI algorithms that are said to detect, track and predict gaps, as well as a 257Hz stroboscopic light to illuminate the mouth, allows it to precisely target jets of liquid and ‘floss’ the user’s teeth.
