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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: 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.