12 Dec 2021

Welcome to the smart toilet era

From Sunday Morning, 10:42 am on 12 December 2021

We have smart-everything these days. Smart phones. Smart watches. Smart vehicles. You name it. But did you know there are also smart toilets? Yes, that's right. Smart toilets. Research professor Sonia Grego is the founding director of the Duke Smart Toilet Lab. She's currently working on a toilet that works as a health-screening tool, using sensors and artificial intelligence to analyse waste. Health experts believe this new smart toilet -- which analyses and tracks stool samples and sends the data to an app -- could become the ultimate health monitoring tool, providing information relating to cancer and many other chronic diseases. Professor Grego is with us to discuss the future of toilets.

Toilet sign

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