Health-Monitoring ‘Smart Toilet’ Remembers Your Distinctive Bum

New research published in Nature Biomedical Engineering describes a mountable toilet system that’s capable of monitoring a person’s health by analysing their urine and poo. The system is modular, and its various gizmos can be fitted onto standard toilets, according to the team behind it. As a person does their business, the system works silently in the background, scanning their biological waste and then uploading the data to the cloud.

What do your bumhole and a snowflake have in common? Turns out no two of these are the same, allowing this “smart toilet” to differentiate your sphincter from others. By doing so, this toilet can monitor changes to your health over time and flag signs of disease.

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