Who does Number 2 work for?!
Ever been dropping deuce, and all of a sudden the thought pops in your head, absolutely related to what you’re doing at the moment, that maybe there might be something wrong down there in Blighttown? Well, the good news is that a high-tech toilet from Toto (no, not the band) might be able to help you out bit, there.
Toto’s Wellness Toilet is a concept product (meaning that it’s not headed to market any time soon) designed to analyze your stool for health irregularities. Per the company’s line:
Toto’s new toilet scans your body and key outputs, providing wellness recommendations as a result of the simple routine act of sitting down on the toilet.
Toilets and people have two unique touchpoints that cannot be found elsewhere—the skin and human waste,” the company says. “The Wellness Toilet is in direct contact with individuals’ skin when they are sitting on it, and it analyzes the waste they deposit—a wealth of wellness data can be collected from fecal matter.
Honestly, there’s an obvious benefit it has over other health trackers. Namely, that you can take a tracker off or misplace it, but you’re always going to have to see a man about a horse. And if you have Toto’s toilet, that horse talk will be logged for your convenience and reference.
Toto’s not the first to come up with the idea, though. Scientists at Stanford University published a paper with a hypothetical smart toilet that logged both solid and liquid waste to determine user health, as well as identify users by their starfish.
Toto didn’t go into details on their toilet. Though it’s a safe bet that there’ll be an array of sensors in the thing to take that data. The company did, however, say that the toilet would take that data and make suggestions (presumably via an app) and provide health recommendations, as well as dietary suggestions.
Source: PC Mag
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