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- Smart toilet detect early warning signs of serious disease in faeces and urine
- A camera inside the bowl identifies between users due to their 'anal print'
- Data from the samples can reveal biomarkers for ten different types of diseases

A smart-toilet that can detect signs of various diseases [dailymail.co.uk] 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.

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