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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
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @08:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @08:32AM (#984507)

    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.