Philips is planning on using its technological know-how gained by making some of the best electric toothbrushes out there in making a “massager” called the Warm Intimate Massager designed for couples in the UK. Philips’ consumer business is supposedly not doing so hot, but if anyone can design a £89 marital aid we hope can vibrate at one billion times a second and clean itself with UV radiation, it’s them. What’s next in this trend? Procter & Gamble’s Vaginal-B? [Times Online via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Toothbrush-like contraptions that spray water into your teeth holes have been around for years, but Philips’ new patent has several innovations that makes sure you don’t blast your gums into submission. The spray head has probes that can detect how far away it is from your teeth, ensuring optimum distance.
Our own Charlie White got a chance to fiddle around with that fancy UV Sonicare Flexcare toothbrush we showed you this morning, and he came away impressed. He says it runs as quiet as a mouse, which is good if you don’t want to wake up your wife with a toothbrush that sounds like a chainsaw, and it feels nice and solid in your hand. It has a few different modes, including a timed three-minute brush and a click brush. The UV sanitizer that nukes germs is available separately, just in case you don’t want to invest in a whole new brush setup.
Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let Charlie stick the thing in his mouth to try to clean up the Dorito crumbs and whisky breath, so I guess we’ll just need to wait till August to test their claim that it removes more plaque than any other electric toothbrush.
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