It's the age of smart toilets!

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What’s Throne? How does it function?

Throne, an Austin-based health startup, sells camera that can be fitted onto the side of a toilet bowl. It involves taking snapshots of your poop, Throne’s “artificial gut intelligence” is trained by physicians to track gut health and hydration levels by analyzing waste.

With this information, it will sort for problems that may require medical attention besides how it lets them know more about their general health. For instance, changes in the color or texture of stool could indicate early signs of malnutrition or physical condition.

Features: 

The idea of an AI toilet is to enhance a person's experience with one of the most private spaces.

These toilets have quite a number of automatic features, among which a very common one is self-cleaning. They can also manage the temperature of water and the pressure of bidet attachment as per the user's taste. There are some models that even have sensors which provide automatic opening and closing of lids, plus flushing when the user leaves.

These innovative smart toilets are opportunistic and advance in many aspects: They are facilitated by artificial intelligence and used to enhance bathroom efficiency, comfort, and hygiene.

Privacy Concerns:

These fecal photo-ops do, of course, present some privacy issues, a camera in the in the restroom is one of the most obscene things there is.

Addressing the major security and privacy concerns regarding the Toilet camera, what it actually records and what it does with those images. The camera here is thankfully aimed down into the bowl, Throne assures describing about it on their site.

Throne declares that "the only images taken are those of the insides of your toilet," because besides that, "everything else is irrelevant to the mission of that camera because it directly compromises an accurate health report." The only other thing it does is use image recognition that automatically deletes the remaining irrelevant images to ensure only toilet-specific data is retained.

Users have a right to ask for full access to any of their data to show just how much Throne keeps on them. And the company is committed to deleting all information on behalf of the user. All the data is encrypted on the company servers.