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agony of de-feet

Good-Bye Foot Raunch, Helloooo Minty Freshness!

Thanks to a new springy plastic insert for shoes, Japanese people will be spared the embarrassment of letting their foot smells waft through public places. Instead, they will experience the embarrassment of adding a strange breath of mint to every establishment where they are required to de-shoe. At every step, the insert pumps out a small dose of mint essence, replacing—and hopefully not just mixing noxiously with—your natural, potentially horrible foot odor. It's a hell of a trade-off. Would you use it? [Reuters]

9:48 AM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,471 views, 21 comments

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: There's this small problem: Bad smell + good smell = bad smell. People just have to understand one single and simple thing: Feet doesn't smell bad... bacterias and other stuff that might grow/feed on it does. My feet smell terrible when I was more »