Kohler’s new toilet camera provides health insights based on your bathroom breaks

There is no reason for a camera to ever be in a bathroom for any reason. And no matter what reason they can come up with there will always be a downside that is substantially worse.

If I want to take pictures of my butthole I have a camera for that already

Nope

Adult Swim pioneered this over a decade ago with SmartPipe

The part that bothers me isn't so much that someone came up with the idea that they could sell a toilet camera marketed as a health app.

It's that it made it far enough to actually be produced and sold. Which means someone tried to go the route of making it a medical device, was told "No" for some reason or another, but said "you know what, there's still money to be made here" and they found people that had no problem making it. If they did have a problem making it, I suspect they no longer work for the teams making it. But because it's here, they found enough people to go "ok whatever."

And that's how we end up with the modern dystopia.

GTFOH.

Beep boop. That's poop.

- My futuristic robotoilet reluctantly watching me shit in its mouth

Of fucking course you need to have their app to get any useful data from it. I certainly trust a plumbing manufacturer to have solid cybersecurity, and there certainly won't be any data breaches of people's poop data. When do you think we're gonna get FOSS poop cameras?

maybe, if we turn it upside down, we can use it to unlock paired phones with sphincterprint

Seeing the comments makes me think, what happens employers start using this sort of texh trying to optimise bathroom breaks or something

And they're uploaded to their AWS server for analysis I hope

Ummm...no.

Or, and bear with me on this, we could educate people on basic matters of health. Crazy, I know! But what if?

I don't need a video recording of my bathroom habits to tell me I need more fiber and more water. Or remind me that liquid bread satisfies neither.

Can't they invent a mouth camera instead, I bet lots of bad health could be prevented with a smart one (smart like plain old smart, not "connected").

There was a webcomic about Google doing this and then selling the data to advertisers. These guys are just ahead of Google (or looking to bought by Google).

I recommend this hilarious book instead

What's Your Poo Telling You?