No, I'm not imagining things. My
toothbrush really talks to me! Beeps every 30 seconds to move from the mouth
quadrant, and slows to 2 minutes, time recommended by dentists for a perfect
brushing.
Here
is the brush image, and the relevant paragraph of the instructions manual,
which does not let me lie.
"A
useful timer on cable beeps every 30 seconds to indicate that should move to
the next quadrant of the mouth. The electric toothbrush tells you when you have
completed the 2-minute brushing recommended by dentists."
I’m
talking about this with some amazement.
A few days ago, the stock of heads of
my electric toothbrush ended, an already old model, with four years. I went to
the supermarket and ... despair! A number of different models, I had to ask for
help, between impatience and humiliation. Hell, it was just a toothbrush! I chose
a head, of course, that ruined the old brush. Result, I had to come back to buy
a new brush, without thinking too much...
Of course I have not read the
instructions, who reads instructions of toothbrushes? As in the first test, the
brush burst into noising and slowing down ... Controlling my suspicion and
laughter, I read the manual. It was confirmed, the brush talks to me. OK.
And suddenly, I realized! It is not
only the brush that speaks to us! We are surrounded by technology whose
greatest entertainment is to tell us things, permanent and personally! Let’s
see.
The TV boxes advise our favorite
movies. The TV will shut down when approaching our bedtime. Bookstores, like Amazon,
advise us books, music and movies similar to our preferences. Google and others
mobilize to inform us when we visit websites and what we might want to search.
The computer tells you about the spelling mistakes, the portfolio updates,
time, alarms, arrivals messages, outgoing messages, cleaning to be carried out.
Mobile phones, too, plus information on expenditures made. The ATM yells
"pull out your money." ATMs supermarkets say "put the item in
the bag, pass the card in the card reader, remove the receipt, thank you for
your preference, please come again” ...
Not to mention cars that tell us
everything that is happening inside and outside, little lights flashing,
screens in the front window, and the friendly little voice, sometimes boring, of
the GPS.
And the soccer ball that tracks the
movements? And the clothes, which monitors health? And the Thermomix? And the
electric oven? And the Tefal Actifry? And the refrigerator that tells about the
stock shortages?
Only
lack the pen that highlights errors, as recalled Nelson Trindade, who revised
this post. It would be very useful to the children at school, and to all that do
misspellings...
Well, dear friends. Everything around
us talks to us. And there is so much to listen ... I love it.
So,
please forget the "old things" ...
