The title pretty well says it all. Researchers at U of M have created a 3-D printed device that fits in your underwear and counts the number of farts you release over a period of time.
Smart Underwear is able to track whenever a person farts. While it may sound silly, this information could be a big benefit to our health, according to the leading scientist behind the effort.
Dr. Brantley Hall’s lab looks more like a factory these days, with multiple 3D printers running at all times.
The machines are working constantly to produce devices about the size of a nickel and it goes on your underwear.
You can volunteer for the project, known as the Human Flatus Atlas. Details are in the article.
From the thread title, I first thought the device would identify who farted. Which on the surface seems helpful, but on reflection, some things are probably best left unknown.
Seeing as how UofM is between the Cesspool on the Potomac and the Queen City of the Patapsco River Drainage Basin, how would they be able to tell what the farts are?
Ya know during March Madness, the schools play ads promoting themselves, usually the same playbook: young, beautiful people wearing tge school’scolors, rowing, in a ballet, volunteering, climbing a mountain, in a classroom, in a research lab…I fully expect U of M to include this important work in their promotional video and ad.
I’d say that’s a given; I just saw first time the Raisin Bran commercial featuring Will(iam) Shat(ner) touting the fiber benefits of said cereal. Sheesh!
What would be scary would be if they hooked this into your other health monitors or fitness trackers. I don’t need Siri or Alexa commenting on the frequency or volume of my flatus ex ano.
I saw a video on the intertubez recently. It was a great mom helping her son with learning math. She gave him a word problem - How many times a game does a cheerleader fart? They googled how many times a day the average person farts then divided that # by 24 to get average per hour, then multiplied that by three (for average game length) to get an answer.
I’ve never seen a kid so jazzed about word problems!
Au Contraire. I worked at a company that was literally printing electronics using sinterable microparticle inks (subsequently sintered with strong blasts of UV light. They could even create some electronic components, not just printed “wires”). But they’re evidently 3D printing electronics now, too:
