Dyson's new $500 AI toothbrush puts a camera in your mouth

I've ne'er put $499 successful my rima before. I've ne'er thought I needed to. Dyson, however, is trying to person maine otherwise.

The $499 CameraJet is the first AI-powered toothbrush pinch a camera built into its brushwood head.

In different words, it lets you livestream the wrong of your rima while you cleanable your teeth. It moreover offers feedback, for illustration immoderate bully dentist.

Six years and 661 engineers. A 100k-pixel macro-lens camera. An "anti-gravity tank." Yes, Dyson has put alternatively a batch into reinventing the toothbrush.

There was erstwhile a clip erstwhile bristles were enough. Glasses only needed lenses. Fridges kept things cold. Headphones played music.

Increasingly, tech companies are putting cameras successful everything. The CameraJet is not moreover tech's first travel to the bathroom. Once upon a time, toilets just needed to flush.

Naturally, location is simply a subscription available, too. Dyson will happily support you supplied pinch replacement brushwood heads, rima rinse, and non-foaming toothpaste — lest a unreality of minty froth unsighted the camera. Other brands are available, though, truthful you are not — strictly speaking — locked into a toothpaste subscription.

The engineering, meanwhile, seems impressive. And, successful the words of BI's Katie Notopoulos: "Honestly, it looks very cool."

That is Dyson's trick: making eye-wateringly costly personal-care gadgets that genuinely alteration the category. Here successful the UK, the Ceramic Ultra Blue exemplary has already sold out.

Not each Dyson invention lands, though. BI compiled a database of the company's large successes and chaotic flops, including the unusual lawsuit of its air-purifying headphones. Read it here.

Call it owed diligence earlier you put a camera successful your mouth.