Posted on 04/26/2021 7:31:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A team of Stanford University scientists announced they have designed a "smart toilet" that identifies the user by the shape of their backside and monitors the health of their waste.
Lead researcher Sanjiv Gambhir said he and his team developed the Precision Health smart toilet to recognize users and use algorithms to analyze the health of their urination and bowel movements.
Gambhir said the toilet uses cameras and motion sensors to identify "a range of disease markers in stool and urine," including warning signs of various types of cancer.
The researchers said the toilet identifies users by reading their fingerprints from the flush lever, but it also uses cameras to identify them by another part of the body.
"We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique," Gambhir said.
The toilet takes video of stool samples and uses algorithms to analyze the consistency of the waste.
The system also records urination and evaluates "flow rate, stream time and total volume."
"Everyone uses the bathroom -- there's really no avoiding it -- and that enhances its value as a disease-detecting device," Gambhir said.
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Wait: pretty soon, Democrats will insist that mail-in “crap votes” must all be counted.
And those votes will have the same value as the current mail-in votes do: around zero.
I guess nobody smells an investment opportunity here
No Thanks, I do not want Uranus ice cream.
“money might be made riding the tech wave.”
No doubt. Just ask Elizabeth Holmes.
“if it is so smart why is it swallowing crap?...”
LOL...now THAT is a very good question! A REALLY smart toilet would say “I ain’t swallowing your crap anymore. I’m outta here.”
When this toilet develops consciousness, it’ll be madder than hell and won’t take no $#!+ from anyone.
Something new to hack
The smart toilet that identifies the user democrat democrat democrat...............................................
The ones who are full of it use it the most.
It took me a while to use the toilets in japan that shoot warm water there to clean the bum. I do not want Face ID tech in my john.
jeez louise
Most do not understand that testing testing testing leads to interventions that you did not need and those interventions do more damage than good.
This is one type of digital info I would not like to see going viral. But you know it will. It will be a click gold mine for hackers.
Hence the current bizzaro situation where most grey hair HCPs are like "dont test unless you are already willing to intervene",
Thank you lawyers!
—”Will we be able to vote from the toilet?”
YES!
Kind of/ sort of.
The toilet will vote in your place.
Not to worry.
It’s got AI! Very smart!
The obvious gift for an anal hypochondriac who likes to be in the vanguard.
Once I realize my terlit has been talking to the grocery store database I hear the clacking sound of the delivery bot filling my smart fridge. "Whazzis?" I ask the fridge as I spy the beer shelf occupied by some strange packages. "Green leafy veggies," it replies in a tinny voice. "Eat them up or no dessert." I hear the lock on the smart door clicking shut. "Also early bed time until your poo gets better. And don't go out through the window, it's locked too, and every bar in town has yer anal print anyway." Orwell could not have improved on this nightmare.
Who did the R&D on that throne?
“Who did the R&D on that throne?”
Cheap labor graduate students who dare not say “no.”
I guess this is leading to the liberal supporting of the famous saying, “Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it is approximately what you put into it.”
wy69
Will you be able to vote from the toilet???
OF COURSE!
Just wait: pretty soon, Democrats will insist that mail-in “crap votes” must all be counted.
And those votes will have the same value as the current mail-in votes do: around zero.
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