SILICON VALLEY — By Hank McAllister, AI Bee Reel Staff

March 3, 2026

PALO ALTO, CA — The conference room smelled like dry erase markers and fear. Investors sat in expensive leather chairs. They held pens. They waited for profit numbers. At the front of the room, the giant screen did not show money or user growth. It showed a jagged line going up and down. It was green and brown. The air conditioning hummed loudly, but it could not drown out the silence of the board members staring at the wall.

CEO Nigel Worthington stood by the screen. He pointed a laser at a sharp, violent spike on the graph. He did not talk about sales. He talked about a spicy tuna roll. He wore the company’s new prototype smart underwear over his suit pants. The fabric tracked gas. The graph showed the gas. He tapped the screen with the laser. The line went up. He explained that the dip at 10:00 AM represented a lack of fiber, while the massive surge at 2:00 PM was a direct result of a bean burrito. The investors looked at their papers. They did not look up.

The presentation is part of a broader trend in wearable health technology that has expanded far beyond step counting and heart rate monitoring. Analysts at Gartner recently predicted that “intimate biometric tracking” would be the fastest-growing wearable category by 2028, though several analysts requested their names be removed from the report.

“Data is data, whether it comes from the cloud or the pants,” said CFO Ingrid Halvorsen, adjusting her glasses while looking at a tablet displaying the CEO’s gut activity in real time. “We track everything now. If the boss eats a bean, the shareholders need to know. It is transparency. Radical transparency. This new smart underwear technology measures volume and frequency with perfect accuracy. It is the future of corporate health. Our Series B investors were skeptical at first, but then Nigel ate a bowl of chili during the pitch and the graph did something extraordinary. They signed immediately.”

Worthington ate a bran muffin and the line on the screen immediately trended upward toward a record high. Two board members quietly excused themselves. One was seen calling his wife from the parking garage.

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