San Francisco: If you were concerned with big tech storing your facial and fingerprint data, there’s more. Now, a smart toilet examines your anal print and ‘reads’ your stool to detect a range of diseases.
Anal prints are reportedly unique and this is how your data will not get mixed up with others. Visioned by Dr Sanjiv Sam Gambhir from Stanford University, the concept is more than 15 years old.
The professor of radiology said, “When I’d bring it up, people would sort of laugh because it seemed like an interesting idea, but also a bit odd.”
A report in Stanford Medicine speaks about the pilot study of 21 participants under Gambhir which uses gadgets to analyze a person’s stool and urine and uploads the data into the cloud. The data can then be analyzed by health professionals and is believed to be helpful for people susceptible to prostate cancer, kidney failure, colorectal cancer or Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
The toilet scans the user’s anus and the print will be used only for identification purposes and no one will see it, according to Gambhir.
