3/10/08 Introducing...iFloss!

Random Quirky thought of the day:
It's after lunch here, and as I work my way through my post Healthy Choice Pepperoni Pizza routine, I can't help but wonder: What's the deal with dental floss? Why, with all of the technology that we have available today, do I still have to jam both hands into my mouth with the goal of getting tiny pieces of string stuck between my teeth? I mean, I'm pretty sure that there are caveman drawings of some poor guy threading pre-historic rope around his gums. Why hasn't floss been updated? Am I the only one who despises cutting off vital finger circulation with roughly 200 feet of floss wrapped around my thumbs (and it slips anyway!) Am I the only one who can't get my hand back into my mouth far enough to get that last molar? Am I the only one who gets the piece of floss finally jammed down between my teeth and then can't get it back out again? (I have a very crowded lower jaw. It can't be helped). Why don't we have lasers or pepperoni-zapping light beams or tiny teeth cleaning robots yet? Sure, they did invent mint-flavored floss, and I appreciate that. And I do like those little picks that have floss stretched between them so that you can hold them easier, but that still requires at least one hand in my mouth. So where's that good old American ingenuity? Put those R&D labs to work Oral B! I need an automatic self-cleaning flosser that doesn't require me to open my mouth beyond human limitations, or tie up either hand. And it'd be nice if it played mp3s or converted into a flip-phone.

Just something to think about.



UBP update- It's day 4 of reading through all the blogs on the Ultimate Blog Party. At this point, there are more than 1000 blogs listed, so there's no way I'm going to make it through all of them. I'm both still excited about some of the great blogs I've found and tired of looking at them at the same time. I'm made it through blog 125 so far, and I'm leaving comments on every blog I look at, because deep down, we're all comment junkies right? And they're real comments about what that person talked about...not just a cut and paste "Come to my site!" comment.