M usic For Your Teeth

Hasbro is relocating music marketing to heretofore uncharted territories: your mouth. A new toothbrush called Tooth Tunes will play 2 minute singles via the reverberating surface of your bones and teeth. Brusha brusha brusha! >>"When pressed to the teeth, the toothbrush renders a recorded riff from a pop star that lasts two minutes -- precisely the amount of time dentists say children should spend brushing their teeth. >>How does it work? "The two-minute recording is stored on a microchip no bigger than a dot atop the letter i. Push a button on the toothbrush, and a minicomputer starts playing the song. Sound waves are transported through the transducer to the front teeth, traveling from there to the jawbone and then to the inner ear. >>Hasbro is in talks with several recording artists about getting rights to their recordings. Many artists would probably consider a gig in a toothbrush beneath their talents. But others might welcome the daily exposure in their young fans' lives." (link) : via
 

 

 

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First, I thought, "What a stupid idea," but then again, I might even buy this. It would be cool if it connected to your iPod and you could change the songs.

nice site.

Posted by: Neil at June 4, 2005 08:21 AM

This is nothing new. A company called Orawave was into the tuned musical toothbrush market first with a superior product called the Tuned Musical 2-Minute Twin Spin toothbrush. Unlike the Hasbro brush --- Orawave’s has a replaceable head, comes in 4 cool designs, plays 8 DIFFERENT tunes so you get a different tune each time you brush, has a 2 minute timer, twin heads and plays music only AFTER the person has brushed for the full 2 minutes - a reward. And it sells for less than $7. Dentists recommend you change your brush heads every 3 months and since Hasbro's brush heads cannot be replaced, you will need to shell out $10, 4 times a year! 4 replacement heads for the Orawave only cost about $8 TOTAL. Hasbro's is a bad rip-off of the Orawave brush.

Posted by: Fred Freeman at June 22, 2005 01:47 PM

This scares me. The very last thing I want is some commerical pop "musician" playing in my teeth. Music is nice and all, but it's much better when you contrast it with the lack therof. What if the world gets so ad and pop-clogged that there is no silence anywhere (like in "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury)? Will people sell CD's full of silence as respite? Hmm

Posted by: Bruce at July 2, 2005 11:46 PM

They had this with lollipops a few years back... I'd say this is a much healthier alternative!

Posted by: Joy at July 16, 2005 12:56 AM

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