CES Proves It's Still Deeply Weird With These Bonkers Gadgets
Not all devices can be vacuum shoes, but most of the weirdest gadgets shown at CES every year are mouth-based; that's just science. In 2025, we've got a smart toothbrush for children that personally gives me the spooks, and that's just to start. Also, there's a spoon that gives you a mild electric jolt to simulate salt -- we're big fans of pumping electricity into our wet gobs around here!
I don't usually get press releases for gadgets I really hate sent directly to me. But the moment I opened the email for this Willo device, I couldn't help but repeat, No! No! No!
See, apparently you can't trust kids and their little hands. Robots can do it better! With the Willo AutoFlo Plus, kids chomp down on the horse-bit thing with the brushes on it and then have to stand there with the handle dangling out as the machine whirs away on their teeth. It's like an espresso machine, but instead it's your child's face. The device is smart, and it has an app, but seriously, who do I have to call about this?
The "Electric Salt" sounds like a dance, but this kind involves the fleshy muscle found in the mouths of most vertebrates -- because this is CES. The Kirin Electric Salt Spoon changes the salt ions with scientistics, to give your tongue more of that salty taste it loves, with microscopically-less sodium.
