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(keeping up with Tokyo) Smart toilet offers advanced poop analysis & analprinting

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https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/04/06...lprinting/

EXCERPT: . . . Designed to monitor your health, the [smart toilet] system comes complete with nearly a dozen sensors that can do everything from perform an on-site specimen exam (it checks your poop and urine for things like consistency, color, and glucose and red blood cell count) to time your movements. And it even has built-in cameras and a fingerprint sensor for security purposes.

[...] First, we ruled this out as an April Fool’s Day joke. The paper this diagram came from was submitted to Nature in December of 2019 and published on 6 April. It seems legit. [...] Seriously, we’re not making this up. The researchers are proposing two-factor authentication featuring your finger and your ass. Here’s another snippet from the study: 

Another identification method—utilizing the analprint, which is user-specific—was therefore designed and implemented into the toilet system. A scanner was installed to record a short video clip of the user’s anus. The ROI—the anus—was then identified using an image recognition algorithm.

Just think about it: somewhere, an AI had to spend hundreds or thousands of hours training its models on pictures of who-knows-how-many human anuses so it could learn to get good enough at this job to do it in the wild. Remember that when the machines rise up.

As it turns out though, we might not see the analprint scanner in a future commercial version of the smart toilet. The researchers discovered that people don’t seem to enjoy having their analprint taken... (MORE - details, graphics)

RELATED: Why America is losing the toilet race (NPR)
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(alt) 'Smart toilet' recognizes users' backsides, analyzes poop
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/04/07/...586291594/

RELEASE: A team of Stanford University scientists announced they have designed a "smart toilet" that identifies the user by the shape of their backside and monitors the health of their waste.

Lead researcher Sanjiv Gambhir said he and his team developed the Precision Health smart toilet to recognize users and use algorithms to analyze the health of their urination and bowel movements.

Gambhir said the toilet uses cameras and motion sensors to identify "a range of disease markers in stool and urine," including warning signs of various types of cancer.

The researchers said the toilet identifies users by reading their fingerprints from the flush lever, but it also uses cameras to identify them by another part of the body.

"We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique," Gambhir said. The toilet takes video of stool samples and uses algorithms to analyze the consistency of the waste.

The system also records urination and evaluates "flow rate, stream time and total volume."

"Everyone uses the bathroom -- there's really no avoiding it -- and that enhances its value as a disease-detecting device," Gambhir said.
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