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'Smart toilet' recognizes users' backsides, analyzes poop
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/04/07/Smart-toilet-recognizes-users-backsides-analyzes-poop/7391586291594/ ^ | April 7, 2021 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 04/26/2021 7:31:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

A team of Stanford University scientists announced they have designed a "smart toilet" that identifies the user by the shape of their backside and monitors the health of their waste.

Lead researcher Sanjiv Gambhir said he and his team developed the Precision Health smart toilet to recognize users and use algorithms to analyze the health of their urination and bowel movements.

Gambhir said the toilet uses cameras and motion sensors to identify "a range of disease markers in stool and urine," including warning signs of various types of cancer.

The researchers said the toilet identifies users by reading their fingerprints from the flush lever, but it also uses cameras to identify them by another part of the body.

"We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique," Gambhir said.

The toilet takes video of stool samples and uses algorithms to analyze the consistency of the waste.

The system also records urination and evaluates "flow rate, stream time and total volume."

"Everyone uses the bathroom -- there's really no avoiding it -- and that enhances its value as a disease-detecting device," Gambhir said.


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To: Pollard

Wait: pretty soon, Democrats will insist that mail-in “crap votes” must all be counted.

And those votes will have the same value as the current mail-in votes do: around zero.


41 posted on 04/26/2021 8:11:52 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" 0specially now.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I guess nobody smells an investment opportunity here


42 posted on 04/26/2021 8:14:12 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: DannyTN

You can visit it;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx41EfvohJw


43 posted on 04/26/2021 8:17:44 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Where words can mean anything they can also mean nothing.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

No Thanks, I do not want Uranus ice cream.


44 posted on 04/26/2021 8:20:30 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: buckalfa

“money might be made riding the tech wave.”

No doubt. Just ask Elizabeth Holmes.


45 posted on 04/26/2021 8:20:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: heavy metal

“if it is so smart why is it swallowing crap?...”

LOL...now THAT is a very good question! A REALLY smart toilet would say “I ain’t swallowing your crap anymore. I’m outta here.”


46 posted on 04/26/2021 8:22:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When this toilet develops consciousness, it’ll be madder than hell and won’t take no $#!+ from anyone.


47 posted on 04/26/2021 8:22:18 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers ("I don't come from money. I come from the opposite of money. I come from... no money." - Ron White)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Something new to hack


48 posted on 04/26/2021 8:24:56 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The smart toilet that identifies the user democrat democrat democrat...............................................

The ones who are full of it use it the most.


49 posted on 04/26/2021 8:25:29 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
No no no no NO!

It took me a while to use the toilets in japan that shoot warm water there to clean the bum. I do not want Face ID tech in my john.

jeez louise

50 posted on 04/26/2021 8:27:57 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: qwerty1234
and how many folks will avoid it - there are so many tests that can be run on feces/urine to monitor health, and catch things when your body is acting poorly and health conditions change, I actually bet these will become mainstream someday (for home use).

Most do not understand that testing testing testing leads to interventions that you did not need and those interventions do more damage than good.

51 posted on 04/26/2021 8:30:33 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This is one type of digital info I would not like to see going viral. But you know it will. It will be a click gold mine for hackers.


52 posted on 04/26/2021 8:34:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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To: corkoman
further... who does the monitoring? If it is a healthcare person there is an OBLIGATION to intervene if on any parameter there is an Out-Of-Range value - the HCP has to "do something" else they are legal liable.

Hence the current bizzaro situation where most grey hair HCPs are like "dont test unless you are already willing to intervene",

Thank you lawyers!

53 posted on 04/26/2021 8:35:08 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Pollard

—”Will we be able to vote from the toilet?”

YES!
Kind of/ sort of.

The toilet will vote in your place.
Not to worry.
It’s got AI! Very smart!


54 posted on 04/26/2021 8:38:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: qwerty1234

The obvious gift for an anal hypochondriac who likes to be in the vanguard.


55 posted on 04/26/2021 8:43:18 AM PDT by JayGalt (Nation under Assault )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I warned everyone about this. A combination of Big Data, plague panic, and the Internet Of Everything will combine to create a surveillance state of oppression the likes of which we haven't known since we were six years old and Mom was in charge.

Once I realize my terlit has been talking to the grocery store database I hear the clacking sound of the delivery bot filling my smart fridge. "Whazzis?" I ask the fridge as I spy the beer shelf occupied by some strange packages. "Green leafy veggies," it replies in a tinny voice. "Eat them up or no dessert." I hear the lock on the smart door clicking shut. "Also early bed time until your poo gets better. And don't go out through the window, it's locked too, and every bar in town has yer anal print anyway." Orwell could not have improved on this nightmare.

56 posted on 04/26/2021 8:45:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Who did the R&D on that throne?


57 posted on 04/26/2021 8:47:38 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Renkluaf

“Who did the R&D on that throne?”

Cheap labor graduate students who dare not say “no.”


58 posted on 04/26/2021 9:01:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Real happiness is one that you share)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I guess this is leading to the liberal supporting of the famous saying, “Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it is approximately what you put into it.”

wy69


59 posted on 04/26/2021 9:08:36 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Pollard

Will you be able to vote from the toilet???

OF COURSE!

Just wait: pretty soon, Democrats will insist that mail-in “crap votes” must all be counted.

And those votes will have the same value as the current mail-in votes do: around zero.


60 posted on 04/26/2021 9:25:49 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" 0specially now.)
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