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Smart Toilet Gadget Recognises Users by their 'Anal Print' and Analyses Deposits

posted by martyb on Saturday April 18 2020, @05:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the Really?-No-Shit! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Smart toilet gadget recognises users by their 'anal print' and analyses deposits to detect early warning signs of cancer, heart disease and diabetes

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)

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:22AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:22AM (#984480) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @06:59AM (#984486)

    disturbingly, the drawing of the person demonstrating the "anal print" seems to be...rather... stretched

    Not enough fiber intake may lead to serious constipation.