My fourth electric toothbrush could be this.
My favourite Xiaomi launched the Mijia Sonic Vibration Electric Toothbrush Pro. The headline mech is a dual-degree-of-freedom motor that combines a 30,720-per-minute sonic vibration with a 45-degree wrist oscillation. This replicates the Bass method dental schools teach which is bristles angled at 45 degrees and swept in small circles. The standard sonic toothbrushes do only the vibration. Mijia Pro adds the oscillation in one motor.
It's a good idea to part for a product solve we've been at for years now. Dual motor. I can't call it out here but would remember when I see this again.
Crompton's premium BLDC ceiling fan with IoT is complicated.
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals announced the Energion Niteo Pro. They have spec'd it good with 48-inch sweep premium ceiling fan, 28W BLDC motor versus the standard induction-motor 75 watts for the same airflow. The fan integrates Crompton Connect IoT for app control plus voice via Alexa and Google Home.
Then there's the remote. It looks like a bad AC remote now with thirteen buttons. Yes, a ceiling fan with thirteen buttons. I miss the olden days with a simple ON/OFF switch and a five speed regulator.
We absolutely need legitimate hardware reviewers with millions of followers to call these bad changes out. Like the MKBHD equivalent for consumer appliances.
Humanoids are here
AgiBot (Chinese humanoid maker) opened a daily-rental program to be made available in 17 markets across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Once delivered at the customer's home and set up, these humanoids go through a 2-hour training on the household's specific tasks. Then the actual work begins. In the mix between AgiBot and the competition, they'll target doing dishwasher loading, laundry folding, surface wiping, pet feeding, and in some custom home errands too! Xpeng, the EV car giant, is also making it's way into launching their humanoid robots with synthetic skin and custom bodies.
There's also Appronik who raised $520M at a $5B valuation to scale Apollo humanoid production into home tasks by next year. So yeah, there's AgiBot, Appronik, Xpeng, 1X, Figure, Unitree, and some more.
This is more aggressive now in terms of the entire category use case shifting from the product to a humanoid being able to open the door for you instead.
