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‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
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#82What types of health conditions can be detected in stools and urine?
For some conditions there are some obviously visual signs e.g. blood in urine or stools. Or the colour of stool may indicate a condition if it is persistently a very pale colour.
But what conditions can be detected in stools and urine that aren't visible by visual diagnosis? The article mentions some cancers but not much detail.
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#83I saw some kitty litter that changes color for certain conditions.
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#84Inevitably another cloud connected device. I hope it keeps my crap secure...
Crap Cloud has a nice ring to it
Re: ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
#85What types of health conditions can be detected in stools and urine? For some conditions there are some obviously visual signs e.g. blood in urine or stools. Or the colour of stool may indicate a condition if it is persistently a very pale colour. But what conditions can be detected in stools and urine that aren't visible by visual diagnosis? The article mentions some cancers but not much detail.
Look up urine test strips
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If they make it optional, I'd bet good money on the "Don't upload" being off by default and hidden behind five complicated menus.
Or even stripped of the good features that "require" the cloud.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain the jewelry bit.
Alright, you got me, I made that half up. But while writing I remembered a friend once told me that he had swallowed a gold tooth accidentally.
I thought you were making a Marathon Man or Schindler's List reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG2vlX5xUP8
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/47393/what-was-th...
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#88Stool 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…
Darryl Cherney once organized a pee-in to protest a call by Ronald Reagan for mandatory government drug testing, convincing several hundred people to mail urine samples to the White House. When the containers were all ruptured by the sorting machinery in the Garberville post office, much of that part of the county's mail smelled like a public toilet for several days. Darryl was informed of the disaster and shrugged sheepishly. When you were saving the planet, you won a few, you lost a few.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=WDvNaVv_sX4C&pg=PA164&lpg=P...
Bob Shireman, who calls himself a "consumer advocate," created the "Piddle to the President Kit." Nw you can send President Reagan your urine in a leak-proof missive, thanks to the sterile specimen cup, the currugated mailing box addressed to "Ron and Nancy," and the set of mailing insttructions that come with each kit.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=neYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT...
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#89"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.
Blue Lives Fecal Matter!
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#90I 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.
Well those people who stole your poo just performed a medical procedure upon you without your consent. That poo is 'you' I'm pretty sure... Whoever has the best lawyer wins.
"You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop." -Wavy Gravy