Can anyone actually build something good?
‘What’s another attack surface of a persons dignity and privacy?’ - all new products.
You’re all going the way of the dinosaurs with your ‘new’ bs
‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
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#32Its already main stream for cats to do the same with litter. https://prettylitter.com/
Its matter of time before this becomes common.
Disclaimer: Investor in prettylitter.
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#33Inevitably another cloud connected device. I hope it keeps my crap secure...
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#34Stool diagnostics are the future. So much health information is flushed down the toilet. I hope this will soon be a standard in houses. Except, the problem is what happens to the data of friends that use your toilet...
>I hope this will soon be a standard in houses. I sure as hell hope is is not. Like every other piece of convenience crapware (pun intended) we've surrounded ourselves with, it would undoubtedly come packed with data sharing agreements with ad networks / data brokers. If this ever becomes some sort of norm, I would encourage people to start mailing boxes of their own waste directly to Google for them to enjoy analyzi…
It's also another way to make sure you don't get the job you're applying for.
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#35Stool diagnostics are the future. So much health information is flushed down the toilet. I hope this will soon be a standard in houses. Except, the problem is what happens to the data of friends that use your toilet...
According to Slavoj Žižek, Germans love Hermeneutic stool diagnostics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs
>Žižek on toilets. Slavoj Žižek during an architecture congress in Pamplona, Spain.
>The German toilets, the old kind -- now they are disappearing, but you still find them. It's the opposite. The hole is in front, so that when you produce excrement, they are displayed in the back, they don't disappear in water. This is the German ritual, you know? Use it every morning. Sniff, inspect your shits for traces of illness. It's high Hermeneutic. I think the original meaning of Hermeneutic may be this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics
>Hermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/)[1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretive principles or methods we resort to when immediate comprehension fails. Rather, hermeneutics is the art of understanding and of making oneself understood.
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#37there was no other method than anus scan for authentication? the fingerprint was not enough? if the anus is so reliable why bother with the fingerprint at all? how about voice authentication in lieu of all that?
I can't believe they used the anal scan. This is too much like SmartPipe to be anything other than hilarious. It's where satire and reality meet back on the other side.
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#38Don't need 1 more thing monitoring my shit.
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#39I guess it’s convenient and probably would save lives by way of course early detection... But... what about going in for an interview and unbeknownst you get idd and samples get sent. Or your employer... oh so and so is coming on with an expensive disease which requires loads of time off to recover... There are implications that need to be adressed.
I'm not quite sure that level of concern is warranted. It is illegal to ask for a medical examination before getting hired and I imagine this would extend to that. Testing poop, even with a smart toilet, would be pretty cumbersome and a huge PR nightmare. It would be just as easy now to remove hair for covert DNA tests - but I don't think that has ever been an issue.
> It would be just as easy now to remove hair for covert DNA tests
Thanks to companies like 23andMe, this won't be neccessary in the future. If enough of your relatives have sent their genome to those companies, they already have the sequenced genome as well as consent from your relatives to use their DNA. Their DNA is highly similar to your DNA which means that they can extrapolate to you, without even having to resort to covert methods.
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#40Its already main stream for cats to do the same with litter. https://prettylitter.com/ Its matter of time before this becomes common. Disclaimer: Investor in prettylitter.
I recognize this as being advertised on the podcast "Small Town Dicks" with Yeardley Smith ["Lisa" from "The Simpsons"] and two detectives "from Small Town USA" about actual true crime stuff.
Notification Again: I just listen to the podcast, I've simply just watched 'The Simpsons', and I don't have a cat.
smalltowndicks.com