How much did your team spend on its roster?
Our staff @TheAthletic spent months and talked to countless people inside and outside of every Power 4 program in search of the answer.
Here's what we found. Free story: https://t.co/21A5tayYyj
James Dyson is 79 and the keynote GOAT right now.
Here’s his tight 7-minute (pretty convincing) pitch for the AI-powered CameraJet ($499) that brushes and flosses at same time.
Problem: average person brushes 45 seconds (under recommended 2 mins). Flossing is “archaic” and “toothbrushing technology hasn’t changed in 40 years”
The CameraJet solution:
▫️1mm camera that can identify plaque and find gaps between teeth (using 100k pixel macro lens)
▫️train ML algorithm on 500k mouth images to recognize plaque targets
▫️films while you brush using “gap optical targeting”
▫️dome-shape over camera so there’s visibility even as it sprays
▫️camera takes 28 images per second and operates slightly out of sequence of toothbrush motion (oscillating 58,000x a minute)
▫️water jet spray has to be conical shape so that it can remove all plaque (competitors use needle jet which don’t get full coverage)
▫️created a “proxy plaque” to test device
▫️anti-gravity water tank so there is the same water pressure at any angle you brush (competing water flossers don’t have this)
▫️video recording that rates brushing sessions and provides tutorials on how to improve brushing
This would be overkill for most but we let it slide with Dyson: “[We] rethought oral care from first principles using vision, fluid dynamics, formulation science, connectivity and AI software to solve a problem that’s been accepted for far too long.”
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Link: https://t.co/w8baDnt9x7