India, Sept. 15 -- On my flight to Berlin in the first week of September, I found myself thinking about the Dyson CameraJet. More specifically, I was thinking about how bizarre the idea sounds when you strip it down to its simplest form: a toothbrush with a camera that uses machine learning to find the gaps between your teeth and fire a jet of water at them.

We now live in a world where AI has found its way into phones, cars, computers and, apparently, toothbrushes. At some point, you have to wonder: how much technology is too much technology?

That was one of the questions I wanted to put to Jake Dyson, Chief Engineer at Dyson, when I met him at the Dyson Unveiled event on the sidelines of IFA 2026 in Berlin. At the time, Dyson had not ...