Women's Health Australia

How Smart Is a Smart Toilet?

How soon is too soon for two strangers to look at pics of poop together? Dr Seung-min Park and I met 20 minutes ago, and we're scrolling through the ‘poop’ subreddit. Park is a biomedical engineer at Stanford University and the lead inventor of a new kind of toilet that connects to an app and offers feedback on pee and poop – a smart toilet.

The photos he's showing me aren't a gross way to make a point. Park fed nearly 30,000 of them to the artificialintelligence technology that will be linked to

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