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SkyMall Monday: Toothpaste Tablets

by Mike Barish (RSS feed) on Mar 5th 2012 at 1:00PM

The restrictions that the TSA places on liquids in our carry-on luggage are frustrating for everyone. How are we supposed to pack all of our lotions, creams, ointments, salves, balms, rinses and sprays in a single one-quart baggie (without getting sneaky)? Looking good isn't easy and requires tremendous amounts of upkeep. This is particularly true when it comes to oral hygiene. Packing handfuls of travel-sized tubes of toothpaste is inconvenient and wasteful. Extracting every last drop of paste from the tubes is a fruitless endeavor (we use a vise here at SkyMall Monday HQ). You'd think that, in 2012, we'd have come up with a better way to clean our teeth. Well, the future is now, thanks to the geniuses at SkyMall (and their friends at Archtek). Stop squeezing your toothpaste when you can just pop it...with a Toothpaste Tablet!

For years, we've longed for the day when our lives would truly be simplified by science. We were teased with glimpses of a magical future in which our meals are ingested in pill form or through chewing gum. Finally, the time has come for toothpaste technology to lead us to a higher state of being. No more tubes filled with silly looking gels. Like all of our problems before, the solution resides in a pillbox.

Think that you can't have toothpaste without the paste? Believe that we're becoming a pill-popping society? Well, while you use your pickle-flavored floss, we'll be reading the product description:

These great tasting, chewable Toothpaste Tablets aren't liquid or paste, so they can be carried on planes in your 3-1-1-kit. Lightweight, compact and convenient, just chew one tablet, brush, and rinse for the same benefits as traditional toothpaste.

You know what else can be carried in your 3-1-1- kit? Liquids and pastes. But those aren't very futuristic, so what's the fun in that? It's about time someone dried out toothpaste into a tablet and allowed us to rehydrate it in our mouths so that we can perform a task that was never that much of a challenge previously. It's like Dippin' Dots for oral hygiene. And look how well things worked out for the "ice cream of the future."

So the next time you're taking your hoverboard on a long trip, leave the tubes at home. Just pack your Toothpaste Tablets and your ~~future's~~ teeth will be so bright, you'll have to wear shades.

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