Electric Toothbrushes Asda
Thoughtful, practical, or fun.
At this point in dental school, I can no longer get away with buying out the school bookstore. My family has all the dental school gear they could ever want, so I am left with a short list of ideas and not enough weekend time to do comparative mall shopping. Just imagining crowded stores and stressful long lines is enough to convince me I’d rather be studying. Bleh.
Thankfully, our ASDA chapter and other student organizations always seem to be selling something useful: tooth whitening systems, electric toothbrushes, or embroidered scrubs and outerwear. They’re always very fairly priced and easily ordered.
Despite the convenience and utility of these gifts, I hesitate to place my orders. Isn’t it a little weird to give teeth whiteners to my friends and family? Does it convey that I think their smile has room for improvement? What if they think their teeth look great as is? Would they think I’m a big jerk?
...Roger Tallon was born in Paris on May 6 1929. As a child he showed talent as an artist, and his parents wanted him to go to art school. Instead, against his parents’ wishes, he decided to study Engineering. Upon graduating, however, instead of practising engineering, he almost immediately turned to design, for which he never had any formal training.
He started his career with Caterpillar France, before becoming a consultant with DuPont de Nemours. In 1953 he joined Technès, the design consultancy founded in 1949 by Jacques Viénot and Jean Parthenay, becoming the sole director of the agency after Viénot’s death in 1959. Two years earlier Tallon had established the first design course in France, at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris, and, in 1963, he created the design department of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
From the 1950s onwards Tallon and his team worked for many leading industrial concerns, designing machine tools and household appliances for General Electric, the Frigidaire division of General Motors and Thomson consumer electronics. A modular helicoid metal staircase, designed in 1964, was bought by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.