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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 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.