‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

Post by jstarfish » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

anm89 wrote: post #56

mmhsieh wrote: post #26

there 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?

Post by thatguy0900 » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 8:30 PM UTC

ARandomerDude wrote: post #50

est31 wrote: post #36

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Yeah but what if you can't buy a non-smart toilet any more? Like what happens with TVs now.

Just don't connect it to your internet.

Post by cmdshiftf4 » Tue, Jun 09, 2020, 4:00 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #88

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #25

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>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 s…

Post by flattone » Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:01 AM UTC

alach11 wrote: post #94

flattone wrote: post #31

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

My wife has an autoimmune disease which can manifest with blood and protein spilling into urine due to impaired kidney function. To monitor this daily would be a tremendous improvement to our ability to monitor for flares.