hygiene

LastPad is a reusable menstrual pad that does away with disposable towels

Direct to consumer online sales have helped a number of female-focused startups get products to market in recent years — often pitching better designed and generally more thoughtful feminine hyg

Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

On Tuesday, R-Zero, a pandemic-era biosafety company, announced the acquisition of CoWorkr — a company that develops room occupancy sensors. The acquisition marks a shift in focus for R-Zero as

The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

Cloud Paper, the startup whose bamboo toilet paper (and celebrity and billionaire backers, including Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Mark Cuban) made a splash l

Juganu begins selling its tunable lighting system for pathogen disinfection and deactivation in the US

Juganu, the venture-backed Israeli company that makes lighting systems capable of emitting light at specified wavelengths, is now selling a product that it claims can disinfect surfaces and deactivate

Bogota’s Tül raises $4 million to improve the supply chain for construction in Latin America

With a new $4 million round, the Bogota-based supply chain logistics technology developer Tül is prepping to expand across the Latin American region. Founded by Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie and Juan C

Pinewood Atlanta Studios outlines safety measures as it prepares to restart movie and TV production

Frank Patterson, president and CEO of Pinewood Atlanta Studios, said that in March, its 1 million-plus square feet of studio and office space were “utterly full” with two major films and t

FDA clears N95 decontamination process that could clean up to 4 million masks per day

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a decontamination process provided by company Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP) that could see as

Rocket startup Skyrora shifts production to hand sanitizer and face masks for coronavirus response

One of the newer companies attempting to join the rarified group of private space launch startups actually flying payloads to orbit has redirected its entire UK-based manufacturing capacity towards CO

Tushy is the simple bidet for every toilet

If there’s one thing I envy in the global spirit and character its the appreciation of a fine bidet. Hygiene being close to godliness, one can imagine the huddled scientists at CERN and KAUST an

Here's how to make Alexa control a toilet — because why not?

Alexa-controlled toilets are a thing in 2018, but cost thousands. An enterprising person can make their own by following these instructions. It takes a bit of work, multiple components and about $750

Internet Stone Soup

I’d wake up my computer and discover, to my dismay, that it had not. I was a full-time blogger, the little brother to the journalist, the digital-ink-stained wretch that pounded out content for

Sanitation And Health Rights in India launched its non-profit for sanitation and water purification services

Sanitation and Health Rights in India is the fruit of work that 29-year-old Anoop Jain has struggled with for the better part of the last six years. After a trip to the Himalayas left Jain with an abi

Finally! A color changing LED shower head that includes a remote control

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/shower.jpg" alt="" />The long wait is finally over, friends. While color-changing LED showerheads <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008

Ear wax cleaner sucks more than Q-tips

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/P20868B.jpg" alt="" />You know what you need to clean out your ears? Tools. And not tools like Q-tips. Real tools. Motorized, mechanized

Showering is bad, m-kay?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/scoble11.jpg">Bad news for those of you who like to keep clean: eggheads at the University of Colorado found that some showerheads appare

Face Gadgets: Rolling Razor = blades on a ring

I don’t find shaving to be a good use of my time. As such, I use a trimmer every week or so to just clip the little guys down to a manageable, non-itchy length. It’s one of the sad perks o

Web-enabled deodorant dock uploads usage patterns

I’d love to be able to say, “Now I’ve seen it all!” and actually mean it, but something even more wonderfully weird than this net-connected deodorant dock will eventually come along and usurp

Back Hair Beware: Extended-reach body hair trimmer

Here’s too much information for you: being of Nordic descent, I have an average to slightly below average amount of body hair. No hair on my back, though, so I’ll probably never need to use the $4

Oral-B Triumph With SmartGuide Wirelessly Guides Your Smile

Feeling like your bathroom needs a wireless upgrade? The new Oral-B Triumph with SmartGuide features a sink-top LCD display that wirelessly guides your brushing. It clocks you to make sure you are mov

Ultreo Super Toothbrush

Ultreo has launched what it claims to be the first major technological innovation in electric toothbrushing since the release Sonicare 15 years ago. Using a combination of “waveguide technology