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Odor-Free Underwear Coming Soon to a Retailer Near You

by Darren Murph on March 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM


Truthfully, there's just not enough work being done in the area of advanced underpants, so we're absolutely elated to hear that textile experts at Japan Women's University in Tokyo are picking up the slack and moving forward with an amazing development. Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese astronaut to live on the International Space Station, is current testing the "odor-free" clothing, and it's said that he can rock the same drawls without any pungent smells for a solid week. The garb is designed to "kill bacteria, absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly," and as if that wasn't awesome enough, they're also flame-resistant and anti-static. The best news? There are already talks of bringing this stuff to the commercial realm. Don't deny it -- you're already thinking of how stellar it'd be to wash clothes just once per month.

Tags: 2newsmain, astronaut, clothes, clothing, garb, Goldwin, International Space Station, InternationalSpaceStation, ISS, J-ware, japan, nasa, odor, smell, space, stink, tokyo, Toray Industries, TorayIndustries, underpants, underwear

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