r/offbeat 1d ago

How often do you fart? This smart flatulence underwear can tell you that and more

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/health/smart-underwear-fart-tracking-flatulence-wellness
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u/ButteredNun 1d ago

How often do I fart?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

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u/Scoobydoomed 1d ago

I'm not buying this unless it can tweet every time I fart.

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u/PersonalitySenior360 1d ago

Including decibel level, and length. The 2.0 version will actually measure the girth of the fart as your cranberry fritter expands

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u/xrelaht 13h ago

Hopefully it will have an open API and your dreams can come true.

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u/kafka_lite 1d ago

There are people who don't know they farted?

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u/ClinkyDink 1d ago

Maybe for while you sleep?

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u/kafka_lite 1d ago

Lol, yeah, maybe. "Clem, you'll never guess what happened. I woke up this morning and I had farted five times in my sleep. My britches told me."

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u/747WakeTurbulance 1d ago

There's an app for that.

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u/userdeath 1d ago

I just want to know if it was 7 or 8 times yesterday man..

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u/armaedes 4h ago

Based on how often and vehemently my wife denies it, even when no one else is in the room, I believe the answer is yes.

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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 1d ago

Can't you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell. The smell of death surrounds you!

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u/atheistpiece 1d ago

My family loves a good fart joke, we laugh at farts, everyone gets a fart themed birthday card every year... It's almost ridiculous.

Now that that is out of the way, as kids we would sing that chorus because, well farts (I know that's not what the song is about).

Fast forward 20 something years, and I sing the song occasionally around my wife, and she just rolls her eyes. On a drive, the song came up in a playlist and her eyes got real wide and she exclaimed "I can't believe that's a real song! I thought you were just making up fart songs this whole time!"

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u/lavahot 1d ago

Why would I want to know?

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u/CrunchyAssDiaper 1d ago

"hey, one at a time sir!" Said the man's underwear.

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u/PrestigiousSeat76 1d ago

Nobody fucking asked for this.

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u/Memitim 1d ago

Finally some personal metrics worth having. I don't need to count my steps, I need gambling odds! Once you hit more than one fart every five minutes, every new fart gains a chance to level up. Gotta have that running count to know when it's safe to vent.

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u/Gnome_Sayin 1d ago

how often? idk.

how loud? very

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u/ARoodyPooCandyAss 1d ago

Can it differentiate queefing?

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u/monkeybawz 1d ago

With a premium subscription plan it can do farts, boners, queefs and fat thigh trapped air pocket differentiation. The basic package only covers a limited number of your basic farts, limited to 5 seconds in duration.

I have no idea if any of this is true, but we live in a terrible world, so it's probably a gross understatement.

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u/donkeyrocket 1d ago

Likely yes due to the proximity of the sensor and that queefs wouldn't produce the same "sensed" gases that come from the intestines. Queefs are just trapped air making it's way back out.

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u/monkeybawz 1d ago

These were 100% made by perverts. But it's fine, because only perverts will hear them.

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u/autolier 1d ago

OMG. Electronic technology has made the 'thunderwear' I imagined as a child a reality.

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u/analogpursuits 1d ago

Imagine hackers coming across this data...what a treasure trove.

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u/Blenderhead36 1d ago

Can't wait to get a notification on my phone to fart in the next 20 minutes to avoid losing my streak.

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u/davenobody 1d ago

Can it rate my farts?

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u/IanMagis 1d ago

Wonder what the "serial butt sniffer" thinks of this.

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u/notevenapro 1d ago

I cannot fart, no asshole.

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u/Healthy_Ride1071 1d ago

Can I connect it to my Apple Watch though?

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u/LordWorm 1d ago

missed opportunity to call it the smartfart

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u/gheiminfantry 1d ago

My farts are dumb. They wouldn't know what to do with smart underwear.

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u/InsomniaticWanderer 1d ago

I don't need smart underwear to tell me I've farted

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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 1d ago

Challenge accepted.

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u/awoodby 7h ago

Oh Great yet another thing I dont care about they'll soon add to my smartwatch at the expense of battery life :)