Kohler unveiled Dekoda, a $599 toilet sensor that uses a tiny camera and spectroscopy to analyze bodily waste and provide health insights[^1][^13]. The device clamps onto the toilet bowl rim and monitors hydration levels, bowel movements, and checks for blood in the toilet.
Users sign in with a fingerprint sensor before use, allowing multiple household members to track their individual data through the companion app. The system requires a subscription costing between $70-156 per year[^1].
"Kohler Health isn't just another app or product. It's a promise that your home can play a more active role in your well-being," said CEO David Kohler at the launch event[^13].
The company emphasizes privacy protection through end-to-end encryption. The camera uses "discreet optics" aimed only at bowl contents, not body parts[^1]. The technology works best with light-colored toilets, as dark bowls can interfere with the sensors[^1].
Dekoda represents Kohler's entry into the digital health space, joining other smart toilet sensors from companies like Withings and Vivoo that appeared at CES 2023[^13].
[^1]: CNET - Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
[^13]: ZDNet - This new Kohler sensor is like a health detective in your toilet
28 Comments
Korkki@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 289d
Double yikes. That almost by definition means cloud and data storage in god knows where. Somebody really wants that sweet sweet profitable metadata.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 289d
https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
crandlecan@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 289d
So... You pay money to know if you have diarrhea, or not, and if it's explosive diarrhea, or not? You son of a bitch, I'm in! 😂
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 289d
There was an Adult Swim infomercial sketch about this 10 years ago
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org · 4 pts · 288d
I can’t believe that was 10 years ago. It is spot on.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 288d
Why not..letsgo! I am awaiting the "leak" videos
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 288d
The asterisk of the day in TikTok.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 7 pts · 288d
I can kind of see this as a positive, where tracking health is useful...
But I'd have to let go of literally every corporation who has tried to be altruistic and then burned me later. 150 a year (let's be real too, per user probably), is too much for a monitoring service like this. Not to mention, you notice blood in your stools. Unless you just ignore weird feelings and just never turn around when flushing you're gonna notice. You don't need a service for that, just go to the doc immediately.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org · 3 pts · 288d
Yeah, it’s actually really valuable data for your own personal use in aggregate. Obviously you would notice a dramatic change one day. But you wouldn’t notice a slow trending change. Having the data to see that could help you identify a condition early before you have symptoms.
Collecting the data has a lot of value. Paying a subscription service for the rest of your life to not lose the data kind of ruins the deal.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 3 pts · 288d
Yeah that seems like the perfect sort of thing to give away as a free benefit to people, but then charge big healthcare for the overall datasets to do analysis on. Fully anonymized of course. If I, someone who actually cared about privacy, was going to do it that'd be how.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 288d
Someone use a Smartwatch? Their all your data go to Apple, Google, Amazon and also maybe even to your Doctor. We like to surround us with Spyware to make big corporations great again.
If i feel me bad or have blood in my shit, I go to the Doctor, no need of an app which say it.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 289d
Does Kohler run truck-stop bathrooms or were they just an inspiration?
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 289d
Maybe in the future, business is business.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 289d
For hardcore smarthome fans. At least no ads.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 289d
No ads…yet.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 289d
Watching for spam with laxatives, digestive infusions and ointments against haemorrhoids in the Gmail and Outlook inbox
arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 7 pts · 289d
*Terms and conditions apply.
**Ad will depend on the volume.
***Targeted ads may be shown depending on fecal analysis.
UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 289d
because it's a new release. Wait half a year.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 289d
Watching your Poseidon kisses in the YT shorts.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 288d
Are you kidding me?! Fixture companies are actively engaging in activity that would get an average person put on a list now.
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 288d
Your internal waste becomes the property of these companies for further analysis
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 287d
You have 20 minutes to collect your (poo) cube.
bobzilla@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
Kohlernoscopy
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 288d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIUae04Ip2c
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 288d
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 288d
I prefer to piss on something of my choice
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 288d
Step 1: Take out $600 cash
Step 2: Piss on cash
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 288d
The Bristol Stool Scale is free and readily available
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 288d
End to end really depends on which end to which end is being connected.
Butt seriously I WANT THIS, I want poop analysis, I want fecal spectrometry. I do not want it to be a god damn enshitifued from the drop app and crapware has to have big "We aren't recording you TRUST US" stuck to it.