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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:04AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:04AM (#701109)

    There's one thing I've always wondered about. Japanese usually take a bath in the evening before going to bed. Don't they wake up with their hair all messed up? A simply comb or brush wouldn't fix it, would it?

    I've wondered because my own hair after I wake up is a mess, even when I keep it short. Just combing it will not tame it enough to let me go to work looking like that.

    Perhaps there's a difference in hair texture or something?

  • (Score: 2) by lentilla on Monday July 02 2018, @12:33AM

    by lentilla (1770) on Monday July 02 2018, @12:33AM (#701122)

    Perhaps there's a difference in hair texture or something?

    Yes, hair from different ethnic groups looks different under a microscope.