I've got an electric toothbrush at home as well (Oral-B, I think it is) which has an automatic timer for 2 or 3 minutes. I don't remember which it is because I don't have to. When I start brushing it starts counting for me and pulses to let me know when I've gone on long enough.
It doesn't matter how awake or tired I am, it doesn't make me remember to set an egg timer, if I need to cut the brushing short I can... *it doesn't make me do anything that I wouldn't be doing otherwise*. That's why it works for me, and incidentally is exactly what I believe technology is supposed to be. Tim S. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM, j. eric townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > Jared Spool wrote: > >> Over the past 20+ years, the ADA has tried a variety of solutions. Nothing >> has been as successful as the introduction of children's powered >> toothbrushes. >> >> Now, you can debate whether they missed something or the resulting design >> is somehow suboptimal. However, that misses the point of this discussion. >> > > Actually, I was off on a bit of a tangent, I was wondering out loud why > motorized toothbrushes work and if there isn't a better way to implement > that functionality. Has anyone other than the ADA studied this in other > cultures, and what were their results? Is the mechanism really a complex > one of subtle manipulation or is it simple novelty that makes it work? ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
