A smartwatch for your butt?
Gone are the days of keeping hidden cameras in washrooms. Now you have legit cameras and biometrics installed right onto your toilet bowl so it can take pictures of your butt! Bizarre as it may sound, it is a new invention aimed at identifying health issues with some early signs.
Many serious diseases like prostate cancer and colon cancer can be detected early on from one’s stool and urine. keeping this and some other health issues in mind, scientists have come up with a weirdly useful idea – a smart toilet. Stanford researchers are on their way to developing a functional prototype of these smart toilets to identify your butts and analyze your poops and pees. In short, a smart toilet will capture some very, very personal data about your bathroom habits.
It is a technology like a smartwatch for your butt – it is aimed at identifying individuals based on their butt and monitoring their health from their stool and urine. Imagine a continuous health monitoring device with a fingerprint reader equipped on the flush lever, multiple cameras placed in the bowl, and multiple motion sensors to identify the prospective disease markers. Scientists say that your bathroom habits can be one of the best disease-detecting devices, and that’s the motivation behind this crazy innovation. They have used the fact that anal prints, like fingerprints, are unique for each one of us and have hence used this information to device the technology.
A data-collecting smart toilet is aimed at alerting you to the first signs or red flags pertaining to any health issues and can even monitor your long-term health. Researchers claim that these toilets can measure your wellness parameters by watching what you’re flushing! Wondering how it works? Well, at first, it uses a scanner that ‘looks at’ your butt and ‘identifies’ you. Next, it measures how long you sit to do your business using a pressure sensor. If you’re peeing, the force and breadth of your ‘flow’ is monitored by a sensor. If you’re pooping, the colon detector checks if the ‘output’ is in a healthy range. Another sensor identifies the ‘shape’ and nature of your solids, and all the information is finally uploaded to the cloud to save for later.
Do you think you’ll be able to make peace with a camera scanning your butt all the time?
