Pop-Sci Core77 Design Challenge/ Description HUMAN POWERED 10/20/03

Description of Design

Dental Pods You’ve just completed that all important business lunch and are heading back to the office while thinking to yourself I wonder if I have any chicken, parsley, broccoli… in my teeth. Of course you, like most people, are not carrying a toothbrush and will run the risk of flashing a poppy seed smile to your coworkers. This product isn’t intended to replace your toothbrush, but would be utilized when a toothbrush is inaccessible. The Dental Pod would be there for you when you need to get that middle of the day grime off your teeth or that after lunch cleaning. The Dental Pod is a disposable solution to oral care, which would come in a convenient and stylish metallic cylinder containing 10 Pods. With the elastic properties, the Dental Pod would be placed and stretched over the end of your tongue. Then using your tongue you would commence to cleaning your teeth and gums. The tines are designed small enough and firm enough (Shore A: 60) to clean in between teeth, yet soft enough to massage your gums at the same time. Each Dental Pod is color coded and coated with there perspective flavors: Red-cinnamon; Blue-wintergreen; Green- spearmint. The Dental Pod would become a new hip alternative to the standard toothpick or chewing gum following meals.