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posted by martyb on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the Try-it-on-all-your-friends! dept.

This device will literally tell you how much you stink

There's so much bad technology in the world that Japan even has a beautiful word for pointless gadgets: "chindogu." There's another splendid Japanese term, one that companies are apparently holding training sessions on how to combat: "sumeru harasumento," or in English, "smell harassment." To help keep offensively stinky people in check, Tanita is releasing a gizmo that figures out how bad your body odor is.

All you have to do with the Tanita ES-100 is turn it on, flip out the sensor and point it to a part of your body you're concerned is exuding too much musk. It measures particulate matter and after 10 seconds, will display how intense your odor is on a 0-10 scale (0, you don't smell; 10, you don't have friends). Level 5 and above means it's time for "smell care," though it might be more effective if it just told you to take a dang shower.

The stench scale goes both ways: if you've applied too much deodorant or cologne, the pocket-sized ES-100 will let you know if you should tone down the aftershave a little. The replaceable sensor is good for 2,000 uses, or about a year.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by sjames on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:42PM (4 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:42PM (#700968) Journal

    They should send it to the U.S. Mostly to deal with people who think bottles of cologne or perfume are single use containers.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:50PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:50PM (#700970) Journal

    Pretty expensive single use container at $80 a pop. Must be limited to the Hamptons or the Jersey Shore.

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:55PM (#701003)

      The college where I teach declared several classrooms "fragrance free zones" because too much perfume was a problem. It's usually only one or two students out of a hundred, but they can make a classroom unusable . . .

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:21PM

      by sjames (2882) on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:21PM (#701015) Journal

      Nah, the people who do that tend towards the cheap stuff.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:34PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:34PM (#700977) Journal

    Send it to the US?

    It's going to have to go up to eleven.

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