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.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:50PM (2 children)
Pretty expensive single use container at $80 a pop. Must be limited to the Hamptons or the Jersey Shore.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:55PM
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
Nah, the people who do that tend towards the cheap stuff.