This is really nonsense.
A Texas startup called Throne is causing a stir in scatological circles after creating a camera that attaches to your toilet and takes pictures of your poop.
“The Throne uses a downwards-facing camera that securely captures video during each bathroom visit,” the Austin-based tech firm writes in describing the dirty camera, called simply the Throne, On their site.
However, they aren’t filming bowel movements for laughs and giggles. It appears that voyeuristic technology is used to mask the user’s gut health.
The device at the bottom simply clips onto the toilet rim and captures video of your stool. Next, doctor-trained artificial intelligence analyzes the stool and provides information about the user’s daily “digestion and hydration status.”
This suspect data, along with simulated health records, is made available through an accompanying smartphone application.
Throne is specifically looking for health markers in stool as well as “nuances” in urine to determine a pooper’s hydration levels. TechCrunch reported.
On a larger scale, “monitoring bowel movements can provide valuable insight into digestive health and nutrient absorption, as well as serve as an early warning sign for a variety of conditions such as gastrointestinal bleeding,” the site explains.
“It’s a cost-effective, non-invasive way to monitor overall health,” he says. “And for individuals with chronic gastrointestinal diseases, it is an essential part of ongoing management.”
Of course, these fake photo-ops raise some privacy concerns – like Countless Airbnb horror stories have provenThere are few things more violating than a camera in a bathroom, let alone a john.
However, Throne reassures potential users on the site that they understand this health information is “incredibly personal.”
To protect users’ privacy, Digital Doo-Commenter only records “the contents of your toilet bowl,” according to the site.
“Any other data is irrelevant to our mission and could compromise our ability to provide accurate health insights,” Throne declared. “We use image recognition technology to automatically remove any non-relevant images. This ensures that only toilet-related data is retained.”
Users can also request full access to the data they have collected, while the company will delete any information on demand (no need to worry about it being hacked and sent to the fecal fetish industry Is).
The best part is that all data is “anonymized,” meaning the data cannot be traced back to the original user.
The Toilet Cam costs users $499, although the company is selling it for $299 for those who want to go faster.
