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Sure but I’m going to carry that smart toilet to the local dump either way
Yeah but what if you can't buy a non-smart toilet any more? Like what happens with TVs now.
FYI, Walmart and Amazon sell dumb 4K TVs.
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#52Stool 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...
They can press the privacy button which will ignore the current poop.
"our business model is delaying the opt-out process beyond the urgency window of the user"
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#54The downsides are huge, including everyone knowing or thinking that they know your medical secrets. More or less we know what we have or risk, yet until it hits us like a ton of bricks we keep eating, sitting and drinking.
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#55Have not read the article, but every time I've heard about it my thought is, "make it not connected to the internet." Basically, keep the data local, then you can choose to take to your doctor, or find a way to analyze it yourself. No need for it to be transmitted anywhere. Of course, that would require respecting a persons privacy and not falling for the lure of "big data" "saving the world".
That defeats the entire point of this, the whole point isn’t a diagnosis but an early warning especially of it can be performed within a single bowl movement so when you are done and ready to flush you get some feedback.
If you need to go to a doctor to get any analysis you might as well bring your own stool sample.
This is intended to replace home stool testing kits which are well icky and tricky to use.
Having smart toilets in public or semi pubic places would be a good balance between privacy and utility, it can’t tie results to a given user but it can collect collective health data and alert users of potential health concerns.
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#56there 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?
This is honestly incredible. They had to have taken this out of the adult swim promo.
This comparison obviously begs the question, it it illegal to store a scan of a child's unique anal topography?
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#57It's more like a lock and key mechanism that employs your topographical anal handshake.
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#58Stool 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...
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#59Have not read the article, but every time I've heard about it my thought is, "make it not connected to the internet." Basically, keep the data local, then you can choose to take to your doctor, or find a way to analyze it yourself. No need for it to be transmitted anywhere. Of course, that would require respecting a persons privacy and not falling for the lure of "big data" "saving the world".
That defeats the entire point of this, the whole point isn’t a diagnosis but an early warning especially of it can be performed within a single bowl movement so when you are done and ready to flush you get some feedback. If you need to go to a doctor to get any analysis you might as well bring your own stool sample. This is intended to replace home stool testing kits which are well icky and tricky to use. Having smar…
I think the point of the parent is not so much that you need to take your data to a doctor as much as it’s about not uploading the data to the internet (ie keep the data local).