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The USB Fiber-Optic toothpick cam gives you a picture of what's really happening in your mouth, in full color, realtime 3M pixels video, including zoom in and out.
Accessories: Mini robotic tweasers, controlled with your mouse. Thermometer, for recieving real time information, and also useful if
you stick toothpick in baked cake, to check if its ready. Hygienic toothpic-tip replacements. Que-tip ear cleaning accessory.
Like this but with gadgets:
http://www.kodak.co...path=2146/2154/2184
[methinksnot, May 01 2006]
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Polaroid_20Toothpicks
[normzone, Jul 07 2021]
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Back just before the turn of the century, I worked with a manufacturer of early digital dental cameras who tried this idea as a means to allow dentists to probe inside a nerve passage or cavity they were drilling out. |
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One of the beta testers broke one off inside a patients tooth and had to drill it out. That was the end of that product line. |
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