Researchers Turn Brushing Your Teeth Into Child's Play

Kids–they hate brushing their teeth. Sure, we try and show them pictures of zombie faces and toothless seniors, but it just doesn’t work. Finally, someone has come up with a solution to the problem: Make it fun. Researchers at the National Taiwan University have devised a scheme that turns brushing your teeth into a Webcam-tracked video game. Using an LED-studded toothbrush, a camera mounted above a mirror and an LCD display, kids can watch plaque and debris get annihilated from a cartoon mouth while they scrub their choppers.

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