Gadgets & Gizmos: Nagging toothbrushes, fonts to defeat AI & shopping without spending a penny

Let's start with toothbrushes.

My toothbrush is telling me off these days.

It told me off this morning.

Oh, what did you do? It's an Oral-B toothbrush, and the handset, the brush, of course, it's full of batteries and electronics and stuff, but it has a timer.

And if I don't do the full two minutes, it gives me a frowny face.

How can you see a frowny face

on

a toothbrush?

Because it has a digital display on it.

Ah, right.

Yes, it's a toothbrush that was recommended by my dentist, so I bought it.

This I never understand, because dentists would like to actually earn a living.

So if they recommend products that are actually very good, people will go to the dentist less.

So surely it's in their interest to recommend things that aren't very

sensible.

Maybe dentists are just universally honest people.

I'm sure that's the thing.

I'm sure that's the case.

I also have a new Oral-B,

but mine doesn't frown.

It just occasionally, if you press too hard, emits a red light.

But it's in such a position that you can't really see it when you're brushing your teeth.

Unless you're looking in the mirror.

I suppose so.

But