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January 7, 2025

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For senior staff writer Rose Maura Lorre, this electric toothbrush is such a joy to use that it transformed what used to be a loathsome task (brushing her teeth) into a pleasurable one.

She likes its thoughtful features, like a handy built-in timer (especially good for wandering minds) and a long-lasting battery life, so it can sit pretty on the countertop, sans charger. But the biggest game changer for Rose? This brush’s small head. The bristles sit perfectly on the surface of her teeth and do all the work for her—no laborious back and forth swiping required.

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After more than 120 total hours of researching the very best electric toothbrushes, interviewing dental experts, considering nearly every model available, and testing 66 toothbrushes ourselves, we’ve found a few favorites.

For pearly whites→

The least bad toothpaste tabs we tested Toothpaste tablets weren’t the eco-friendly game changer we were hoping for. But these were by far the best that we tried→

A string floss we love (with a refillable dispenser) It’s plush, gentle, and comes in fun flavors→

The very best water flossers This countertop flosser made our mouths feel the cleanest, and it can operate cordlessly, which saves counter space→

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Newsletters editor Brittney Ho is spending the week in Las Vegas covering the Consumer Electronics Show, the yearly tech trade show where companies show off their latest and greatest. Here’s her dispatch from Wirecutter’s first day on the ground at CES.

When I bumped into a couple of our tech experts roaming the somewhat chaotic trade show floor yesterday—navigating through beeping robots and pressing through hoards of people—they were both buzzing about the same thing: a toaster-like hub that boosts a low-battery iPhone in seconds.

The demo we all watched was admittedly cool: Basically, you outfit your phone in a sleek case with a built-in battery. When the battery runs low, you lower your phone into what looks like a toaster. Inside, the hub sucks out the dead battery embedded in the phone case and slides in an entirely new one. Your phone pops back out with a fresh battery. Ding.

The downside? The system is currently preorder only, and it’s quite expensive—over $100 for each phone case, plus over $400 for the main hub. “It’s definitely not a must-have for everyone,” says senior staff writer Sarah Witman. “But it’s one of the better charging innovations I’ve seen at CES in a while.”

In the meantime … here are Sarah’s favorite fast chargers, for every device.

— Brittney

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