AI toilet camera takes pics of your poop to analyze gut health
A Texas startup named Throne is making waves in scatological circles after devising a camera that attaches to your toilet and photographs your poop.
“Throne uses a downward facing camera that securely captures video during each bathroom visit,” the Austin-based tech firm writes while describing the crappy camera, simply dubbed Throne, on their site.
The downward-facing device simply clips onto the toilet rim and snaps videos of your stool. Afterward, doctor-trained artificial intelligence analyzes the stool and provides insight into the user’s daily “digestive and hydration status.”
This doody data, along with tailored health recs, is then made available via an accompanying Smartphone application.
Throne is specifically searching for health markers in excrement as well as “nuances” in the urine to determine the pooper’s level of hydration, TechCrunch reported.
On a larger scale, “monitoring bowel movements can provide valuable insights into digestive health and nutrient absorption, as well as serve as an early warning sign for various conditions like gastrointestinal bleeding,” the site describes.
Of course, these fecal photo-ops do raise some privacy concerns — as myriad Airbnb horror stories have proven, there are few things more violating than a cam in the bathroom, let alone the john.
However, Throne assures prospective users on the site that they understand that this health info is “incredibly personal.”
To protect users’ privacy, the digital doo-cumenter only records the “contents of your toilet bowl,” per the site
Imagine analyzing your poop after eating a chit ton of curry lmao
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