{"id":32296,"date":"2026-07-24T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32296"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:57:35","slug":"game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32296","title":{"rendered":"Game Of Thrones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31502\" target=\"_blank\">Previously on WCD.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Throne, co-founded by University of Texas graduate Scott Hickle, has developed a device that clips onto a toilet and tracks gut health, hydration and prostate health using a camera, microphone and artificial intelligence.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. Another potty cam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI certainly didn\u2019t think I was going to grow up to build toilet cameras for a living,\u201d Hickle said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bet his parents (who the article mentions are both doctors) are proud.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThere\u2019s 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,\u201d Hickle said.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">The team even developed a special robot that simulates peeing to develop the microphone.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theincomparable.com\/robot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robot Or Not?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">The app shows data for:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<li>Stool consistency, frequency, timing, color, size and buoyancy<\/li>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<li>Hydration based on urine appearance<\/li>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<li>Time spent on the toilet<\/li>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<li>Urinary flow metrics intended as a prostate health indicator<\/li>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYou can see every session throughout the day. So I\u2019ve gone four times,\u201d Hickle said while demonstrating the app.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did. Not. Need. To. Know. That.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">User data is also given extra security. The website promises \u201cbank-level encryption\u201d.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s completely meaningless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/local\/austin\/austin-startup-uses-ai-powered-toilet-camera-to-track-gut-health-hydration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Throne\u2019s device costs $400 and requires a $6-per-month subscription that the company says helps pay for its AI models.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;s no mention in the article, however, if the subscription covers multiple Thrones or just one Throne per subscription. There&#8217;s also no discussion of multi-user capability.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I&#8217;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 \u201cgut health\u201d seems to be the next big health advance, though it seems to me that \u201cgut health\u201d has been a thing for a while, and what do we have to show for it?<\/p>\n<p>And, once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdirect.gov.au\/urine-colour-chart\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s your hydration chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously on WCD. Throne, co-founded by University of Texas graduate Scott Hickle, has developed a device that clips onto a toilet and tracks gut health, hydration and prostate health using a camera, microphone and artificial intelligence. Yep. Another potty cam. \u201cI certainly didn\u2019t think I was going to grow up to build toilet cameras for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,45,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-stupid","category-urine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32301,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32296\/revisions\/32301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}