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December 04, 2013
Newfangled crapper will do medical analysis on your pee
A while ago I did a post conjecturing how this might be done with sewer discharge and robotic sewer crawlers. Well now there's people working on a crapper that will do it.
...It also analyzes your pee. “It’s what you’d get if you go to the doctor now, and you need to be checked for diabetes or kidney disease and they check things like the phosphates in the urine,” Sheard says. “In the U.K., many people with diabetes are diagnosed late, which adds billions of pounds a year in health costs.” By checking up on users, the toilet aims to help catch diseases earlier...
...It could also replace the ubiquitous home pregnancy test...
...he toilet could also analyze nutritional deficiencies. All of the health feedback could be sent to a smartphone through an app...
Unstated, but obviously possible, is it could send evidence of your illegal drug use directly to the govt. With the NSA already into your shit in a big way, its not a big leap for them to actually be into your shit.