{"id":115123,"date":"2015-05-11T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=115123"},"modified":"2015-05-10T18:44:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T18:44:22","slug":"a-fart-tracking-kickstarter-wants-you-to-stop-cutting-the-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/a-fart-tracking-kickstarter-wants-you-to-stop-cutting-the-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"A fart-tracking kickstarter wants you to stop cutting the cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"
Are you tired of constantly cutting the cheese? Unsurprisingly, there’s an app for this.<\/p>\n
A little device called the CH4 is named after the chemical compound CH4, or methane, which is found in natural gas.<\/p>\n
Funding for the fart-tracking wearable is underway on Kickstarter, where a pledge of $120 will get you one of these non-invasive little guys.<\/p>\n
Brazilian graphic designer and wearables enthusiast Rodrigo Narciso is the brain behind the tiny 3D-printed tracker. He developed the idea for his Master’s thesis in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The concept is simple: Correlate how much you fart to what you’re eating.<\/p>\n
“People are divided. Some love it and some think it\u2019s just a joke\/parody<\/span>,” he told Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n Place the square in your back pocket or attach it to your belt and go about your day. The sensor will detect each time you fart and record it on what resembles a car’s gas gauge. Then, on the associated app, enter your daily food intake; the CH4 will figure out which foods make you extra gassy, and can thus be avoided.<\/p>\n