Do you fart a lot? If you do, you’ve probably already mastered the after-fart poker face where you just sit still with a stony expression and continue doing whatever it is you’re doing, so as to deflect suspicion that you are, indeed, the farter. If you don’t, well, you probably don’t like beans that much.
Frequent farters will be happy to hear that fart-filtering underwear now exists. It’s called Shreddies, and it has an embedded layer of Zorflex, a thin and flexible carbon cloth that’s behind the underwear’s flatulence filtering action.
Shreddies flatulence filtering underwear features a ‘Zorflex’ activated carbon back panel that absorbs all flatulence odours. Due to its highly porous nature, the odour vapours become trapped and neutralised by the cloth, which is then reactivated by simply washing the garment.
Shreddies is available for men (as boxer briefs and support boxers) starting at $40 and for women (as briefs and high-waisted briefs) starting at $30.
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It’s easy to gain weight, but it’s exponentially harder to lose it. As you probably already know by now, crash diets won’t work. What does work is cleaning up your diet and adding more exercise into your lifestyle.
Then, of course, there’s Stink Yourself Slim.
I wouldn’t say it’s revolutionary, but I would say that it’s definitely unusual.
Stink Yourself Slim is basically a stink bomb in a bottle, but you’re not supposed to use it to prank others. Instead, you’re supposed to spritz some and smell it so you’ll lose your appetite. It’s logical: the less food you eat, the more weight you lose. It was created by Alex Fontaine and was inspired by a real-life event when a skunk crashed a buffet and ruined everyone’s appetite.
It’s being advertised as something that curbs emotional eating as it “works on brain areas that control motivation and behavior.” I’m not sure how stinking up the place affects a person’s motivation, but I will agree that it’ll make them want to eat less.
Stink Yourself Slim is available online for £29.99 (~$49 USD).
[via TAXI via FoodBeast via Incredible Things]
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If you have a body odor problem, you’ll want stay away from this disembodied robotic head and dog. The one shaped like a girls head smells your breath and the robot canine smells your feet.
They were made by Kitakyushu National College of Technology and ”Crazy Lab”. These robots were designed to make people more aware of their cleaning habits by making strong remarks about just that. Depending on how bad your breath is, Kaori-chan can say things like “Yuck! You have bad breath!”, “No way! I can’t stand it!” or even the dire “Emergency! There’s an emergency taking place!”
Shuntaro-kun, the feet smelling robot dog evaluates the intensity of odor from your feet, on a scale of one to four. Depending on how strong the stench is, the dog will cuddle up to you, bark, growl or pass out.
[via Asahi via Damn Geeky]
"Emergency taking place!" That's quite possibly the last thing you'd want to hear from anyone smelling your breath -- a female humanoid robotic head mounted atop a rectangular pink and red box being no exception. Similarly, a robotic hound passing out after smelling your feet should certainly be cause for alarm. Japanese company CrazyLabo paired up with Kitakyushu National College of Technology to create both bots, tasked with smelling your breath and your feet, respectively. The woman, named Kaori-chan, passes judgement on four levels, with feedback ranging from "It smells like citrus!" to the dire exclamation you read about above.
The pooch, for his part, doesn't speak, but instead displays varying levels of affection -- it'll cuddle up if things are looking good, but it'll bark or growl if it's time to change those socks. If the situation is beyond repair, he'll collapse, as Chopin's funeral march plays in the background. It's just as depressing as it sounds. Granted, it's all in good fun, but if you're easily offended (or often offending), you probably won't want to venture any closer than the demo video at the source link below.
I use an old trick my eldest sister taught me to keep the clothes in my closet smelling fresh: open a box of soap and just leave it at the bottom of your closet. When you open your cabinet the next day, you’ll be hit with the scent that isn’t overpowering or too weak, but just right. Of course, make sure you choose a soap with a fragrance that you like.
But if you’re the type who prefers your closet to smell neutral, then I think the Plasmacluster might be your best bet. It’s a system developed and sold by Daiwa of Japan that makes use of ions to get rid of odors and keep your closet smelling clean and fresh.
The negative and positive ions that it releases fasten onto clothes surfaces where the suspended microbes are, forming oxidizing hydroxide radicals. This instantly causes the removal of hydrogen from the proteins, which causes the physical breakdown of the microbes, rendering them inactive, giving you a clean, nice-smelling closet.
Unfortunately, the Plasmacluster system costs ¥45,990 (~$558 USD). We have no idea on whether or not it actually works, though, so you might end up spending close to half a grand just to see if it does. Or you could just buy a box of soap.
[via Newlaunches via Oh Gizmo!]