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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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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: 1) by anubi on Sunday April 19 2020, @05:51AM

    by anubi (2828) on Sunday April 19 2020, @05:51AM (#984791) Journal

    What I really want is a toilet that cleans itself, clog resistant, and flush valving that is as reliable as Grandpa's old hammer.

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