Breath Alert Lets You Take a Bad Breath Self-Test

The way things progress during first dates can be decided by factors like bad breath (Discovery channel assertion). So, don't relax thinking that females only have radar to detect the wuss in you. They still might accept you though; someone has to take care of the kids after all. But if your ma' cooked you something packed with garlic or onion, your breath will probably stink like a bucket full of dead tunas. And that "parfum d'homme" will definitely not make your date get you on the sugar-daddy list. This is where the Breath Alert comes to save your unborn children.

Here's how it works. After you breathe out towards it, the device detects and measures the amount of volatile sulfide compounds and hydrocarbon gas that are present when your breath is (presumably) bad. The unit will then display the odor result using a scale from 1 to 4. If it displays 1 point it means you're one stinking monkey and if you see 4 points it probably tells your breath is almost not that bad. The Breath Alert can't detect all the chemical compounds of your breath, so better cup your hands to your face to check the real breath level. And make sure you're alone in the elevator when you do that! Or get a mint that will take your bad breath away and forget about the whole story.


The device works with a pre-installed AAA battery that will probably live shorter than you expect (for unknown reasons, of course). There's no word on the price, but you can dig for more niggling details on the Tanita website. Too bad the thing wasn't designed to check for alcohol level too.

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