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   Hello Jay!   
      
    JH> So the science is sounds it seems.  The "smart toilet" you   
    JH> originally posted about seems to be moving that technology   
    JH> indoors to our very own porcelain thrones.   
      
   Unless developers install those things as "standard" toilets, I     
   don't see them widely accepted.  They will need some kind of     
   internet connectivity.. and with the (hopefully) growing     
   concern about privacy and blanket statements like this:   
      
   " The smart toilet automatically sends data extracted from any     
   sample to a secure, cloud-based system for safekeeping. "   
      
     ..I don't see people trusting one manufacturer's claim to     
   what is "secure".   
      
   Apparently it was initially designed to *just* use fingerprint     
   technology on the flusher:   
      
   " One of the most important aspects of the smart toilet may     
   well be one of the most surprising - and perhaps unnerving: It     
   has a built-in identification system. "The whole point is to     
   provide precise, individualized health feedback, so we needed     
   to make sure the toilet could discern between users," Gambhir     
   said. "To do so, we made a flush lever that reads     
   fingerprints."   
      
   " The team realized, however, that fingerprints aren't quite     
   foolproof. What if one person uses the toilet, but someone else     
   flushes it? Or what if the toilet is of the auto-flush variety?   
      
   " They added a small scanner that images a rather camera-shy   
   part of the body. You might call it the polar opposite of   
   facial recognition. In other words, to fully reap the benefits   
   of the smart toilet, users must make their peace with a camera   
   that scans their anus."   
      
   Anyway.. the thing is so complex, something is bound to go     
   wrong with it. I don't see people rushing to fix a broken     
   camera that is built-in in the toilet.   
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