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https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-butthole
Are You Ready To Share Your Analprint With Big Tech?
This smart toilet recognizes your butt and analyzes poo for diseases
An experimental toilet out of Stanford University identifies users by their finger and anal prints while gathering data for urine and stool analysis, a new study reports.
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The same toilet also has a very unconventional (and invasive) way of recognizing the user. Hint: it’s the physical opposite of facial recognition.
This toilet recognizes your butthole and uploads photos to the cloud
It has four cameras, and yes, it uploads photos to the cloud.
Identifying who is using the toilet will be critical in a household of several people. “The whole point is to provide precise, individualized health feedback, so we needed to make sure the toilet could discern between users,” Prof. Gambhir said. “To do so, we made a flush lever that reads fingerprints.”
“We have taken rigorous steps to ensure that all the information is de-identified when it’s sent to the cloud and that the information — when sent to health care providers — is protected under HIPAA,” he told Stanford Medicine News.
The Verge: “The idea for an analprint was sparked by Salvador Dalí, who discovered that ‘the anus has 35 or 37 creases, which are as unique as fingerprints’” Real clear science: “A team of researchers primarily based out of Stanford University has engineered a proof-of-concept smart toilet module designed to monitor a user’s health based on their urine and stools.” Business Insider: “We know it seems weird, but as it turns out, your anal print is unique…” Mashable: “The so-called Precision Health Toilet is equipped with four cameras: the stool camera, anus camera, and two uroflow cameras.” Boing Boing: “Oh, and apparently one’s ‘analprint’ is scannable and unique” (n.b. it is unclear whether it is ‘analprint’ or ‘anal print’)