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‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

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Re: ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

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Post by Kiro »

stingraycharles wrote: post #59
dogma1138 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Or the obvious middle-ground: make it optional to upload it. I would certainly not want this unless it uploaded and analyzed the data automatically. If it can happen locally, no problem, but I guess it makes it much harder.

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Post by Kiro »

The comments in this thread that can't see the obvious benefits and instead are focusing on far-fetched privacy issues. If we come to a point where everyone is forced to shit in a smart toilet we will have way bigger problems to deal with. Until then just let me have a smart toilet to analyze my poop.

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Post by the-dude »

DonHopkins wrote: post #35
TomJansen wrote: post #6

Stool 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…

We, the Dutch, have such toilets too ( mine is of this type ).

And my biology teacher told us : keep an eye on your shit. Excrement I mean, pardon my English.

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Post by jansan »

jimmaswell wrote: post #2

Adult Swim's Smart Pipe coming to life. https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ I actually thought it was a cool idea when I watched that, besides the exaggerated parts for the joke.

Anyone else had the "Bugs be gone" commercial played before the actual video? I was totally confused and eventually found out that this was an ad by Ultimate Premium. This was probably the first time an ad actually worked on my in the last couple of years.

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Post by noir_lord »

est31 wrote: post #36
flattone wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I bought a nice samsung 4k HDR smart TV a couple of years ago in an xmas offer from argos, connected it to a linux mediaPC and never setup the network for it.

It's a dumb panel that displays video exactly as FSM intended - I don't even use the built in speakers, I use a nice set of PC spears with a sub.

I actually don't know what the smart capabilities are, I turn it on, switching to HDMI2 and never touch it again.

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Post by pvaldes »

"You'll never guess what Jennifer Lopez had for dinner this month. The number 9 will blow your digestive system"

But Wow, that adult swim video nailed that in 2014

Of course If a system can scan signs of disease, to modify it to scan silently drugs would be a breeze. Would be basically like putting a policeman inside each toilet.

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Post by jansan »

DonHopkins wrote: post #35
TomJansen wrote: post #6

Stool 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…

As someone who built a house not so long ago I can tell you that the official German words are "Tiefspüler" (the modern type) vs "Flachspüler" (the old type). The old type is recommended for elderly people who want to inspect their stool regularly for blood, maggots and jewlery.

Re: ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

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Post by arcturus17 »

jansan wrote: post #67
DonHopkins wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

As someone who built a house not so long ago I can tell you that the official German words are "Tiefspüler" (the modern type) vs "Flachspüler" (the old type). The old type is recommended for elderly people who want to inspect their stool regularly for blood, maggots and jewlery.

Ok, I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain the jewelry bit.
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