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A smart-toilet that can detect signs of various diseases in faeces and urine has been built by scientists.
The gadget fits inside a regular porcelain toilet bowl and uses cameras, test strips and sensors to identify warning signs of up to ten diseases including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
The technology uses a combination of fingerprint scanning on the flush lever and photographic images of the anus to differentiate between users when sitting down.
Data from the tests is deposited into a secure cloud server for analysis, according to the team who built the tool at Stanford University.
Journal Reference:
Seung-min Park, Daeyoun D. Won, Brian J. Lee et al. "A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta", Nature Biomedical Engineering (DOI: doi:10.1038/s41551-020-0534-9)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:04AM (5 children)
Just when you thought things that could be connected to the internet were getting weird, along comes this. Now don't get me wrong, I think bidets are wonderful things,especially in this day of TP weirdness. They only take a couple of sheets to dry your backside. It's bad enough that I go in every three years for a colonoscopy, but should my butt be streamed live to my doctors and anyone else who hacks in?
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:52AM (1 child)
Definitely not [youtube.com]. Plus, who knows how much closer [nih.gov] the man will come to identifying behavior they don't like?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @07:02AM
Well unfortunately your, uhh... lifestyle choice do reflect on your body eventually. Binding the doctor to legal silence is interesting in the sense of externalizing the closet duties but bitch please just get over yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @08:32AM
You are presuming this toy will be be made mandatory for all toilets everywhere and no one will escape it. Reality is, you will probably never hear about this toy ever again. It will go back to where it came from where the sun don't shine.
(Score: 4, Funny) by inertnet on Saturday April 18 2020, @11:26AM
Simple, just leave your pants on.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Sunday April 19 2020, @01:06AM
In all contexts, for all reasons, there are actually very few butts that should be live streamed anywhere at anytime.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:22AM (1 child)
shit, hey?
Looking at the pictures in TFA, most men can't aim straight enough to hit the urinalysis strip more than 10% of the time.. and it is the wrong way around for anyone sitting down.
Web link the camera - lets all run our own goatse pages.. (disturbingly, the drawing of the person demonstrating the "anal print" seems to be...rather... stretched.
Let's hope it is IP67 rated before they start selling it.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:59AM
Not enough fiber intake may lead to serious constipation.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @07:00AM
Nice to see you again!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @08:46AM (1 child)
Chyna! [sciencedaily.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @04:58PM
Add a laser and you can take care of those pesky hemorrhoids while you're at it.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Nuke on Saturday April 18 2020, @12:12PM
The guys who get off by taking photos of their own arses used to do it by sitting on photocopiers. Dammed Millenials, they have have to do everything on the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @12:25PM (2 children)
Most things on the Internet are about gathering info on the user to make money with.
What is the business plan for this new information stream?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Saturday April 18 2020, @12:58PM
Blackmail?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @02:30PM
FecesBook?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @02:29PM
Adult Swim did a parody of this years before it was real thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday April 18 2020, @04:42PM
Does it do the virus? Both genetics and antibody?
And the burning question - does it report to the employers and authorities? No? Can I see the code to pick at it?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @05:19PM
What does it think of this anal print [goatse.cx]?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday April 18 2020, @07:40PM
Soooo, instead of a kit to detect poisons in what you eat, you get a kit that detects how much damage you accumulated. Yay for progress.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday April 19 2020, @05:51AM
What I really want is a toilet that cleans itself, clog resistant, and flush valving that is as reliable as Grandpa's old hammer.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]