The future is incredible with its intelligence that keeps growing each day that goes by. Now, toilets will be able to scan your bodily waste and let you know about your state of health along with if you have any risk of disease. That’s impressive!
Micron is the company that’s developing this smart artificial intelligence (AI) toilet that may one day be your doctor in the future. The major goal of this technology is to recognize the signs of health issues, diseases, or ailments earlier on to possibly save some lives. “Imagine smart toilets in the future that will be analyzing human waste in real-time every day. You don’t need to be going to visit a physician every six months. If any sign of disease starts showing up, you’ll be able to catch it much faster because of urine analysis and stool analysis,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, Chief Executive of Memory Chipmaker Micron Technology.
The ability of the smart toilet to perform fecal and urine analysis is actually not surprising as artificial intelligence is already currently capable of detecting diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease from scans. Stool and urine samples are the most commonly used test to determine patients’ health. The fecal analysis helps diagnose conditions affecting the digestive tract while the urine analysis can find certain illnesses. These samples can reveal a number of conditions such as stomach infections, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, Kidney disease, Liver disease, diabetes, and sexually transmitted infections.
All solid and liquid bodily waste is just made up of byproducts from bodily processes including digestion and detoxification. It’s the concentration of these chemical compounds that can show if there are any issues with your body.
Furthermore, once the AI toilet analyzes the urine and feces, the reports could then be uploaded to the internet to be sent directly to a doctor. This could potentially save you and your doctor’s time to do more tests. The researchers believe that analyzing human waste in real-time could be the best way to spot any trouble signs earlier on.
Mehrotra said: “Medicine is going toward precision medicine and precision health.”
As smartphone devices continue to be developed, it’s only a matter of time before revolutionary healthcare improvements are introduced to all kinds of different appliances that we regularly use every day.
Other Smart Toilets
- Scientists at Cambridge University have come up with ways to make toilets test people’s urine for blood sugar, alcohol levels, and also if they’re depressed, pregnant, a smoker, or using drugs.
- A Japanese company created a toilet that measures someone’s urine flow rate, which can indicate prostate cancer or bladder problems.
- Japanese tech company Sharp Corp invented a smart litterbox to analyze the urine of cats and track their body weight to test for abnormalities. This device costs only £175 and sends a daily health report for up to three pets to the owner’s smartphone.
What Color Is Your Urine?
A good indicator of multiple health conditions is the color of someone’s pee. According to Dr. Luke Powles from Bupa Health Clinics and Cosmopolitan, listed below are what some of the colors mean:
Pale straw
- The healthiest urine color reveals a person is hydrated enough.
Lighter than pale straw
- The individual is probably drinking more water than they need to, which is typically harmless. Although this may cause them to urinate a lot more than usual.
Dark yellow
- Amber-colored urine indicates extreme dehydration and the individual should immediately drink water.
Green
- Usually harmless and occurs as a result of eating certain foods such as asparagus or artificial colorings.
- In rare cases, It’s a sign of a rare genetic disease called familial hypercalcemia, which causes abnormally high calcium levels in the blood.
- Sometimes it can be a side effect of certain green medications.
Red
- Usually due to eating particular red foods, such as beetroot.
- It can possibly be due to blood, such as during menstruation.
- In serious cases, it’s because of infections or even cancers.
If people are unable to find the connection between their red urine and food they have eaten recently, they should immediately visit their GP.
Surprising Facts About Poop
- Poop is actually made up of more bacteria than old food. Aside from water, around 50 to 80% of your poop is bacteria that had been in your intestines and was then pushed out as food passed through.
- When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he left behind four bags of poop.
- One of the creations Bill Gates helped fund was “Poop Water,” which is poop turned into water.
- The reason you see corn in your poop is because of cellulose.
- The healthiest poop is a continuous log that sinks to the bottom of the toilet.
- Dead red blood cells and bile is the reason why poop is brown.
- Gut bacteria and plant fiber are necessary for a good poop.
