UPDATE: TechOn English have translated the article. Apart from detecting the angle, it also determines the position of the brush in the mouth and controls the vibration speed accordingly.

I don’t know if there is any need but here it is. Omron Healthcare from Japan will sell HT-B551 toothbrush with an acceleration sensor that will detect the angle of the toothbrush during brushing. What advantages it brings is totally dependent on your Japanese reading skills because machine translation is not that helpful.

It is available in the Japanese market for 8000 Yen.

[Via Techon (Subs required)]

Japanese company, Omron has created a smile scanner that could rate a smile on the basis of percentage, in real-time. The device takes factors like shape of eyes, mouth, facial wrinkles into account to arrive at the desired result. Omron says this scanner can be a boon to the trainees seeking a career in the hospitality industry.

The two variants on sale are the Basic and the Trainer Pack. The Basic Pack consists of a camera and the hardware that processes the smile whereas the trainer pack includes additional training software to get that fake perfect smile.

Here’s a Japanese video explaining the gadget.

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[Via Register|Japan Probe]