Brushito: Mexico's Coming World Dominance
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 10:38AM 
I was in Guadalajara not long ago, and aside from the wonderful climate (second only to Kenya!) and its proximity to Tequila, Mexico (a.k.a. Big Rock Candy Mountain), there is something else to recommend the city. Something utterly original and utterly chilling--proof that the U.S. has bigger things to fear than China's rise as a world power.
How many times have you found yourself at a fancy restaurant with a lovely person you'd like to get to know better, only to realize that your breath smells like a fisherman's ass? Those condoms in the bathroom aren't going to do you a lick of good. If you were lucky enough to find yourself in a bathroom in a Guadalajara restaurant, you might find a giant vending machine--about the size of the Monolith from 2001--filled with mysterious little plastic bubbles. And inside each tiny bubble is a tiny toothpaste, an assemble-it-yourself toothbrush, and a little flossing tool.
Brushito is cute, cheap at a mere 20 pesos, and it solves all your immediate problems. To my thinking, that's the very definition of high technology. Mexico is beating us, my friends. Prepare for the opening of the seventh seal.
Brushito, Guadalajara, Mexico, hygiene in Design
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