Scientists at the Stanford School of Medicine have invented a smart toilet that uses a camera to recognise the “unique anal print” of whoever is using it. The high-tech bowl can also calculate “the flow rate and volume of urine, using computer vision as a uroflowmeter”, reported Futurism.
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