Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents (www.cnet.com)
from Zerush@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 08:51
https://lemmy.ml/post/37798719

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

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Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 08:53 next collapse

For hardcore smarthome fans. At least no ads.

UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works on 20 Oct 09:08 next collapse

because it’s a new release. Wait half a year.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 09:45 collapse

Watching your Poseidon kisses in the YT shorts.

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 09:10 next collapse

No ads…yet.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 09:36 collapse

Watching for spam with laxatives, digestive infusions and ointments against haemorrhoids in the Gmail and Outlook inbox

arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 20 Oct 09:38 collapse

*Terms and conditions apply.
**Ad will depend on the volume.
***Targeted ads may be shown depending on fecal analysis.

Korkki@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 10:45 next collapse

Requires a subscription service.

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 on 20 Oct 11:18 collapse
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works on 20 Oct 11:02 next collapse

Does Kohler run truck-stop bathrooms or were they just an inspiration?

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 11:09 collapse

Maybe in the future, business is business.

crandlecan@mander.xyz on 20 Oct 11:40 next collapse

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 on 20 Oct 12:28 next collapse

There was an Adult Swim infomercial sketch about this 10 years ago

captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org on 20 Oct 15:02 collapse

I can’t believe that was 10 years ago. It is spot on.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 20 Oct 13:34 next collapse

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.

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 14:02 next collapse

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.

captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org on 20 Oct 15:04 collapse

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 on 20 Oct 15:18 collapse

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.

bobzilla@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 13:35 next collapse

Kohlernoscopy

hanrahan@slrpnk.net on 20 Oct 13:45 next collapse

Why not…letsgo! I am awaiting the “leak” videos

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 16:51 collapse

The asterisk of the day in TikTok.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Oct 14:10 next collapse

The Bristol Stool Scale is free and readily available

DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org on 20 Oct 18:03 next collapse

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 on 20 Oct 18:15 collapse

Your internal waste becomes the property of these companies for further analysis

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Oct 18:58 next collapse

Why spend all that money when you can spend less for a device by Withings that you piss on?

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 20:20 collapse

I prefer to piss on something of my choice

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca on 20 Oct 21:01 collapse

Step 1: Take out $600 cash

Step 2: Piss on cash

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 20 Oct 20:35 next collapse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIUae04Ip2c

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 21 Oct 06:29 collapse

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.