This could herald a New Age of Decorum for employees on the Internet. Somebody’s come up with a device that unleashes a stink bomb each time workers use inappropriate language in e-mails, tweets and other digital dispatches.
Check out Pepper Mouth, which, according to its inventor, “is a USB device that releases bad smells as the result of ‘bad language’ usage on a computer.”
This gizmo is the epitome of simplicity. An employee types a bad word in an e-mail. The computer sends an alert to a canister loaded with stinky stuff (that’s the scientific term). The stinky stuff is released. The offender gets grossed out and feels appropriately chastised.
“Maybe when your ‘bad language’ disturbs you with a bad smell, you will start to understand that it might have other, more serious consequences,” the inventor, uh, sniffs.
Is science great, or what?
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