Taking the level of personal care to the next pinnacle is a pocket sized gadget that detects when you are stinking and lets you know. Yes, that used to be what you mother told you, but now apparently you can know when you are stinking even if she’s not around to tell you so.

A Japanese company, Konica Minolta, has come up with this gadget to end what they term “Smell Harassment” at work. The stink detector looks like a tape recorder and can connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth using an app.

Kunkun Body, as the detector is called, can let you know that you stink in four location. These are near the head, behind the ear, under the armpits and around the feet. Apparently the Japanese are very sensitive to offensive smell and the office workers who annoy others with their noxious aromas have a specific term, Sumehara.

It seems that the number one work etiquette  concern is body smell. So the company decided to conduct a science experiment to create the gadget. It is part of a set of self care products that have been crowd funded. The company has no plans to sell the device outside Japan at present.