I had to post about this, as the father of a (nearly) 2 year-old I know how hard it can be to get them to brush their teeth. At the moment, my daughter is going OK, but to be honest there are some days that she loves brushing her teeth and others when she doesn’t. We try a lot of things to get her brushing regularly – encouragement, letting her do it all on her own…But, our tooth brushing prayers could be answered thanks to some researchers at the National Taiwan University, who have invented a cool webcam based video game. Using a camera mounted above your bathroom mirror and a toothbrush with LEDs on the handle, the game uses the camera to sense where the movement of the child’s hand through the LEDs and integrates the movement into the gameplay via an LCD display – check out the video.
MyTake – Cute, perhaps a bit of an over-teched solution to a traditional problem, but at least someone is thinking about it. It’s quite cool to think that practically anything can be turned into a piece of personalised content – even if it is just brushing your teeth.
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