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No way is putting the Internet into a watch or say a toilet pointless. The data collected from such things will extend and save our lives. Send your heart rat
by paul9290 12y ago
No way is putting the Internet into a watch or say a toilet pointless. The data collected from such things will extend and save our lives.
Send your heart rate to your doctor and or the ability for him or a medical staff to monitor via your watch is invaluable.
A IoT toilet of the future should be able to analyze your specimen data, look for irregularities in it's data based on million of records and notify you to schedule a doctor's appointment.
Samsung is presenting the benefits of IoT terribly wrong it seems.
- maxerickson 12y agoIsn't the impressive part of automated fecal screening going to be the automated fecal screening and not the radio and data feed for the doctor?
- scintill76 12y agoMaybe that will be helped by maintaining millions of records about feces, doctor's visits, prescriptions, OTC supplement/medicine use, diet, genetics, etc. Insert "big data" buzzwords. Still, it leaves the question of whether it's actually possible, worth it and will be embraced by enough people to work. I'm skeptical.
- paul9290 12y agoNobody seems to be working on a IoT toilet yet or has announced it yet. It's an idea/thought I've always wanted to work on as I noted above for a few years now. Overall the cost to create it I'm thinking is enormous and it's not something I or another could create/invent in a garage.
- bigtunacan 12y agoHate to break it to you, but that's "big in Japan" already. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/high-tech-toilet-takes-urine-sample_n_1479348.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/high-tech-toilet-ta...
- paul9290 12y agoGreat to hear thanks for pointing this out! Definitely innovation needed to proliferate/become the norm. Of course there are many ways to skin a cat and no one is doing it here in the US... Yet. The one who does it best and has the biggest Rolodex/bank wins in this much needed space.
- marssaxman 12y agoHow about not just "no", but "hell no"? This is the surveillance era - do you really want the NSA logging a continuous stream of your health data?
- paul9290 12y agoThere doing that now ... how has it affected your daily life? Further, If you want to opt out of technology that will extend and save your life that is your choice. For me my health/extending my life span is more important then privacy. Others may or may not feel the same.
- geon 12y agoWhy not just encrypt it?
- paul9290 12y agoExactly just encrypt your SH&T ... Sorry couldn't resist!
- marssaxman 12y agoThe NSA is not currently logging all my health data because there is no digital stream of health data on the internet which they could intercept. Perhaps they could break into my doctor's files if they cared, but all they'd be able to find would be an occasional snapshot from the occasional checkup. Most of the information present would have to be read and analyzed by a human. This is very, very different from the situation which would exist in an "internet of things" world in which my toilet, coffeepot, toothbrush, and the like were all snooping on me and streaming their results. By intercepting all this data, which we already know the NSA is constantly doing, it would be possible to automatically construct a statistics-based picture of my health, and that of everyone else around me. This is incredibly creepy, fucked up, wrong, and not even a little bit OK.
- xorcist 12y agoI would like to add that this does not stop with the NSA. I would not be even the slightest bit more comfortable with Apple or Facebook doing it.