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Smart Toilet
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More than heart rate and exercise, smart toilets may soon track disease, sleep patterns, and drug use
There’s no well-worn career path to becoming a stool analyst, says Vikram Kashyap. To become the founder and CEO of San Francisco–based human waste analysis company Toi Labs, Kashyap had to break his own ground — by analyzing his own poop.
Kashyap has ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease that causes sores in his colon, abdominal cramps and pain, rectal bleeding, and bloody diarrhea. The disease is, so far, incurable, though its debilitating effects can be curbed to some degree. Kashyap tried experimental treatments on himself, analyzing samples of his own stool in the process with the help of researchers…
