Welcome to the 'smart toilet' that can spot disease

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as a font of valuable information, outside what you might read while you're sitting on the throne.

That data could be forwarded to your doctor, who would track changes that might provide clues to such diseases as cancer, kidney failure, diabetes or irritable bowel syndrome."We're trying to monitor every aspect of human health that can be detected from human excretion," Park said. Stanford's smart toilet design uses cameras, motion sensors and chemical tests to check different indicators of your health:Stool shape and consistency could show whether someone has a bowel disorder.

A fingerprint identification system on the flush lever provides one way to make sure no one mistakes your excretion for someone else's, Park said. Gambhir pledges that no one, not you or your doctor, will see either the fingerprint or the anus scans, which are used solely to match you with your data.

 

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