Gizmodo: personal hygiene

Brush & Rinse Toothbrush Creates Mini Water Fountain

Charlie White — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:46:52 EDT

The Brush & Rinse toothbrush from Amron Experimental creates a little water fountain for you to sip from when it's time to rinse. Hey, this is a solution to a problem that's long overdue.

More pics and pricing on the next page.

An odd twist on the Amron Experimental website is the sale of 27 working prototypes, each for $1750 plus $30 shipping. Huh? Don't let that scare you away, though—once the toothbrushes are in widespread production, the company plans to price them at $3 apiece.

Excellent idea. Sign us up. [Amron Experimental]

Moore's Law for Razor Blades: 14 Blades by 2100

gizmodo.com — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:25:22 EST

Those of you who did a spit-take when Gillette announced their five blade Fusion razor last year because you remembered The Onion predicting it would happen from the year before, you should appreciate that someone at The Economist not only wondered whether or not there was a Moore's Law for razor blades but actually worked on the graph you see to the right. If the (admittedly few) five data points we have hold, we should be shaving ourselves with fourteen blades by the 2100.

We'd be impressed except that by 2100 we expect hair removal to be taken care of automagically by nanobots as we shower. Who wants blades when you can have teeny tiny robots?

Shaving technology: The cutting edge [The Economist]

Blow in My Ear and I'll...

Charlie White — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:25:30 EST

Now appearing on Useless Piece of Shit lists all over the world is the Sahara Dry Ear. About as handy as an electric fork, this $100 ear dryer runs at what's called a comfortable temperature, apparently to evaporate various forms of watery detritus out of your outer ear canal. I guess a towel, piece of tissue or a Q-tip wouldn't work well enough...? Stick it far enough into your ear and it will blow your head up like a balloon. On the heels of this monumental announcement, now we see the results of a study from the January issue of Nature Genetics saying that the consistency of ear wax is genetically determined, and if you're from Asia, your ear jam is dry, but those of us from Africa or Europe have gooey ear cheese. So I guess Asians won't have much need for this thing unless they get their ears really waterlogged in the shower. Hey, maybe this Dry Ear thing will blow away most of that slime for the rest of us. Blow in my ear and I ll, I ll ...well, I'm not following the Dry Ear anywhere.

The Dry Ear [Red Ferret]