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Gemmabeta t1_j2v8lcj wrote

Reply to comment by amgodfrey in Withings' $500 toilet computer wants to be WebMD for your pee | The hardware sits in your toilet, analyzing what's poured forth into it by chrisdh79

This machine is basically a bunch of miniaturized urine test strips and a detector to read them.

Hospital labs have been using this sort of machines for decades.

And abnormal test results (blood, nitrites, sugar/ketones) is very important and can be an early indicator of oncoming issues. E.g. people go quite far into diabetes before they actually notice the symptoms.

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Equivalent_Arugula86 t1_j2v5ysp wrote

Reply to Report Reveals Wave of New Features for Apple's Mixed-Reality Headset by DarthBuzzard

I used to be an apple fanboy. I can’t see this being popular. I’m going to reserve my judgement until I see the product though - people were extremely sceptical of the idea of an apple phone and it definitely caught on. However the rumoured price is laughable, don’t get me started on the waist battery pack. Whatever excitement I had for AR/VR is gone - I fear that everything bad in our digital world (the monopolies and iron fist rules of app stores , the violation of our privacy , the algorithmic content designed to keep you engaged and enraged etc ) will only become worse when the device is literally shoved on you. Old Zuckie boy sure showed us the way.

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Mediumofmediocrity t1_j2v0eqw wrote

Reply to Withings' $500 toilet computer wants to be WebMD for your pee | The hardware sits in your toilet, analyzing what's poured forth into it by chrisdh79

A friend mine beta tested this at their corporate r&d headquarters. It said he had tennis elbow and he had very low to no sperm count. He was brutally honest with the techs when he told them while it’s true he had a vasectomy years earlier he absolutely didn’t play tennis and their device sucked. They gave him a sample vial and asked him to bring another urine sample the next day. That night he told me he was going make a joke out of something so obviously erroneous so not only did he pee in the cup, but he had his wife and teenage daughter pee in it, he poured in a little used motor oil from his car, and then he jerked off in it. He took the sample back to them the next day. They poured it into the device and the display blinked a couple times then reported that his wife was pregnant, his daughter was doing drugs, his car needed a tune up, and if he didn’t quit masturbating his tennis elbow would never heal.

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