Immediately what I thought of as well haha

See - I actually think this is a pretty interesting idea. Stool/Urine are fairly solid indicators of personal health in a lot of ways.

But I think this is a product that probably shouldn't be allowed to exist as a standard SaaS/IoT product.

If this was a box I could hook up on my toilet that showed useful info on a screen locally - with zero network access... I'd consider buying.

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People are really glib about the loss of control relying on someone else's computer brings.

between service enshittification, company death (out of business), privacy concerns, and ownership contention (do I own a device if a company keeps keys to the locks inside it and won't give them to me? I'd argue a solid and resounding "NO")... I don't want anything to do with most modern networked devices in the form of IoT.

Given that most people don't have an alcohol mister pointed at the flush button, and that gets touched just as often as the fingerprint sensor, I think the lack of an alcohol mister is fine.

Probably a good idea for toilet user to wash their hands.

Came here looking for the Smartpipe reference, left satisfied.

I buy my flush water from the city by volume.

We're almost there, right? Wasn't there a recent story about needing to watch ads in order to get toilet paper somewhere?

Ideal output: half-pound no-wipe solid floater

The hydration of stool varies considerably.

Probably tough to do much with just information about the outputs.

Sounds like a shitty job

Not hot dog…

There are some privacy issues you can't set aside.

The status quo is that I have enough skin in the game when it comes to my health, that if something doesn't feel or look normal (and I didn't just eat a lot of beets), I go to the doctor. It would save me an annual subscription cost, too, and it's a big upfront cost for when Kohler no longer wants to support it (a lot of people have Nest thermostats that are losing all of their useful functionality in a few days).

If this helps people with specific conditions, that's great, but, I'm having a hard time picturing someone who is so out of touch with their body that they will pay for this and follow its recommendations.

I have something called eyes and they come preinstalled and included with my system. I carry them with me everywhere. They are multifunctional for many other applications too. They do not have a subscription model either. They even come with a built in, extremely efficient power plant that produces energy for them endlessly for around 80-something years by simple input of quality biomatter.

The measurement bodily stool and fluids is out of control. It borders on a disorder.

Aren't sphincters unique like fingerprints? There's already a camera, make it happen Kohler.

> and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet

So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.

I’ve been on the internet long enough to tell you that there is a market.

The phrase "more money than sense" comes to mind.

Not a lot of people and presumably they know that, hence the price.

> who would do that ?

Discriminating anal-ysts.

Shit just got real

Presumably there’s some power near the toilet, or they’re self selecting for people who do. Beyond that, it has a rechargeable battery for those who do not.

Electric bidets are not uncommon, and are popular depending where you are in the world.

From the linked CNET article: "The device has a removable, rechargeable battery and uses a USB connection." Or, if you're willing to spend $600 on a poop camera, you probably already have a bidet with power near the toilet.

If this is medically useful is the question. If it can decect cancer before other tests and thus save my life I'm interested.

It would be strange to do it for someone unimportant, but for a world leader who's opponents will take it to extract DNA for analysis to try and gain some advantage, it seems entirely reasonable.

With Withings there are also some french men trying to do the same for pee with U-Scan, there is even a subscription model tied to it