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This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago

It's Dr Toilet! Finally!

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 24 points 6 hours ago

Apologies for the shitposting.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 20 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Save yourself some money and privacy, and just learn about the Bristol Stool Scale for free (which is all this thing is using).

This is just a camera connected to some LLM that tells you if your poop is a healthy shape or color. Unless this thing is sampling your stool, it's not going to tell you anything you can't figure out with your own eyes. It isn't going to be diagnosing your vitamin deficiencies or catch early signs of colon cancer.

Or you could just eat healthily and take a good look at your prize logs before you flush. One doesn't [need] a piece of tech to determine whether you should have eaten that week-old meal you left hiding in the back of the fridge.

Even the author agrees.

ETA: Also, if you have the money to spend on this, go buy a nice bidet. Better use of your money.

[–] smokebuddy 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Article also says it needs an app on your phone running to function, could they not have just developed an app that lets you use your phone camera to take a picture of your dook (meaning the device is useless)?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

A very good point.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

So, the Internet of Shit is not just a euphemism now. Great...

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Smart Pipe Inc. is a registered sex offender

EDIT: My god, they kind of predicted NFTs with this one as well. A literal throw away line of being able to redeem usage points for a 'digital poster for my digital poster wallet.'