This Smart Toilet Will Know You by the Shape of Your Ballon knot

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A team of researchers at Stanford University developed a prototype smart toilet with four cameras that identify users based on their "analprint."

Stanford researchers have created the panopticon of looking up your own arse, with a "smart toilet" that monitors your health by analyzing your stool, urine, and the timing of both, using four cameras and an array of sensors and identification systems. The paper, "A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta," was published Monday in the journal Nature.

"Each user of the toilet is identified through their fingerprint and the distinctive features of their anoderm," the researchers write, "and the data are securely stored and analysed in an encrypted cloud server." The anoderm is the scientific word for your a-hole-skin, entomologically a combination of "anus," and "derm," or skin.

Rather than sending people to a clinic or labs for expensive and time-consuming blood tests, these researchers posit that the most valuable health data is in our shite, spit and piss. They write that "the ideal sources of diagnostic information for continuous health monitoring are the potentially information-rich molecular contents of breath, sweat, saliva, urine and stool."

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