What's in your pee? A smart toilet could revolutionize personal health but also pose privacy risks.
Similar to an Apple Watch or a Fitbit, this smart toilet would produce a huge amount of health data that needs protecting.“Security is definitely something we’re thinking about,” said Miller, the co-author of the study. “There are going to be a lot of issues to consider as this kind of data becomes more available to consumers.”
As of now, these security risks aren't stopping potential manufacturing partners from showing interest in Coon's design. “Our device is quite different in that we’re interested in targeting compounds in urine,” Coon said. “We want to go molecular.”Unlike other smart toilets, Coon’s will use a mass spectrometer, a tool he describes as a “scale for molecules.” By sorting out the weight of thousands of molecules in a one microliter urine sample, the mass spectrometer can give users a thorough molecular analysis of their urine, and alert them to anything amiss, in about 10 minutes.
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