Toilet Lab: Diagnostic Tests On Smart Toilets?

In todayu0027s technological era, smart devices for health monitoring and diagnostic testing are becoming more innovative and ubiquitous. In a recent article published in Nature , the author features the concept of home-use smart toilets equipped with a urine sampler and analyzers able to measure a panel of urinary biomarkers. The results of the tests can be self-monitored and shared with the physician in real time while the user goes about their day. As futuristic as this may sound, smart toilets in fact already exist. The Stanford Canary Center researchers have a prototype built with over-the-counter test strips that measure 10 urinary factors such as acidity and glucose concentrations, which can indicate risk of kidney stones and diabetes, …