Yep. Another potty cam.
“I certainly didn’t think I was going to grow up to build toilet cameras for a living,” Hickle said.
I bet his parents (who the article mentions are both doctors) are proud.
“There’s a microphone here and we can turn the sound of your pee stream into a chart of your urinary flow rate and the peak urinary flow rate,” Hickle said.
The team even developed a special robot that simulates peeing to develop the microphone.
Did. Not. Need. To. Know. That.
User data is also given extra security. The website promises “bank-level encryption”.
Well, that’s completely meaningless.
So the hardware is cheaper than the Kohler Dekoda, and the subscription is $1 a month cheaper (though the Dekoda is only $70 if you pay for a full year). There’s no mention in the article, however, if the subscription covers multiple Thrones or just one Throne per subscription. There’s also no discussion of multi-user capability.
Other than that, I’d repeat the same things I said about the Dekoda: I get that there are some people with health conditions that might find this useful, though I question whether it would be $400 plus an ongoing $72 a year useful. I also get that “gut health” seems to be the next big health advance, though it seems to me that “gut health” has been a thing for a while, and what do we have to show for it?
And, once again, here’s your hydration chart.