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Intel's 100-core chip could power intelligent toilet
The Register ^ | 3/6/05 | Ashlee Vance

Posted on 03/06/2005 9:09:18 PM PST by freedom44

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To: freedom44

A smart toilet, examining my stool?

I'm sorry, I just don't know where to begin . . .


21 posted on 03/06/2005 10:04:27 PM PST by Petronski (Have you heard the rumor? Choco ration's going up! Double-plus good, eh?)
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To: freedom44
Intel's 100-core chip could power intelligent toilet

Better hope it doesn't do a 'core dump.' :-)

22 posted on 03/06/2005 10:06:37 PM PST by sourcery (Resistance is futile: We are the Blog)
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To: freedom44
Or, should you collapse right then and there, the toilet can call for an ambulance. Brilliant!

It could have saved Elvis.

23 posted on 03/06/2005 10:10:30 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Witty tag line on back order.)
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To: Petronski
A smart toilet, examining my stool?

I'm sorry, I just don't know where to begin . . .

But it does. Just hold still for a sec . . . . .

24 posted on 03/06/2005 10:13:39 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Petronski

Begin by hoping that it doesn't get made by Microsoft.


25 posted on 03/06/2005 10:31:52 PM PST by thoughtomator (Gleefully watching the self-demolition of all things left-wing)
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To: thoughtomator

Toilets calling doctors and ambulances? Must be the new software called "STOOL Pigeon!"


26 posted on 03/06/2005 10:37:50 PM PST by datakcy (I Pledge Allegiance - is that TOO MUCH to ask? If so, then go back to your tents & mud huts NOW!!!)
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To: freedom44

I'd be impressed if it kept the toilet from backing up and overflowing.


27 posted on 03/06/2005 11:04:38 PM PST by Nachoman
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

ROTFLMAO!

God help us! I really don't want a talking toilet. The Islamonazi-defending FReepers are bad enough. LOL! Yechhhhh!


28 posted on 03/06/2005 11:08:51 PM PST by broadsword (You don't deal with a cancer by only dealing with the cells that are painful. Cut them ALL out!)
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To: Polybius

The powerful toilet can call the authorities if it notices suspicious stool wearing a turban and thumping a copy of the Koran. LOL!


29 posted on 03/06/2005 11:10:19 PM PST by broadsword (You don't deal with a cancer by only dealing with the cells that are painful. Cut them ALL out!)
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Will it be able to distinguish blood from a hemmorhoid from a more serious problem?

Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.

30 posted on 03/06/2005 11:14:39 PM PST by Joe Miner
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The Apple iToilet
31 posted on 03/06/2005 11:23:59 PM PST by MediaMole
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LOL! Everybody HAS TO follow that link! Thanks for the laugh!


32 posted on 03/06/2005 11:39:33 PM PST by broadsword (You don't deal with a cancer by only dealing with the cells that are painful. Cut them ALL out!)
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To: freedom44

Just what I need ... to be un-manned by an automatic tampon remover.


33 posted on 03/07/2005 12:37:46 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: broadsword

There was a country comedian who talked about a country store who had a two seater privy.
He put a speaker between the seats and when a woman went into the outdoor toilet.
He would say into the microphone "Lady, could you use the other seat, I'm working down here".


34 posted on 03/07/2005 4:26:31 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (When you compromise with evil, evil wins. AYN RAND)
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To: Joe Miner; Zivasmate
Will it be able to distinguish blood from a hemmorhoid from a more serious problem?

Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.

Do NOT go by that.

The color of the blood depends on how long the blood has been sitting around in your G.I. tract before it comes out. The color is bright red with cancers of the rectum and sigmoid colon, but is usually thick, black, and "tarry" if the cancer is higher up in the digestive tract.

Thirty percent of all colon cancers develop in the rectum thereby potentially presenting with "bright red" blood.

So, don't be lulled into a false sense of security by "bright red" blood. That could very well be a rectal cancer.

If you bleed, see your doctor. Once you are 50, get your colonoscopy.

35 posted on 03/07/2005 6:13:58 AM PST by Polybius
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36 posted on 03/07/2005 6:18:43 AM PST by JoeSixPack1 (@100 mph, you have no friends.)
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To: martin_fierro
Me: "STFU and clean yourself, willya?"

Ditto here. I'd rather have an analog of a slave or sentry rather than a nanny.

37 posted on 03/07/2005 6:20:24 AM PST by Jack of all Trades
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To: martin_fierro; freedom44; Charles Henrickson

Talk about being able to flush the cache!


38 posted on 03/07/2005 7:21:19 AM PST by mikrofon (Basin-2 Math)
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or

"cough, cough, just WHAT DID YOU EAT??, gasp, I'm gagging here, can't you go outside or something?"


39 posted on 03/08/2005 4:09:22 PM PST by Malsua
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