Sep 15, 2026 · 18 min · 8 segments
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Rae JohnstonHost
Tegan JonesHost
They're, they're not particularly new, but there's been a few updates in this space that I thought was worth revisiting.
Oh, for me specifically, who's in love with the idea of a Japanese toilet, please.
I think we've gotten to a point, though, where it's started to feel like something that we find at a CES, at one of these tech trade shows-
... as a weird thing from the future, and more like its own actual consumer technology category because there's more reviews coming out, and there's more people that are actually using them day to day, and there's been a few more updates in the space.
There's a whole bunch of new hands-on reviews from people who've actually lived with it for-
... that is analyzing urine, and there's companies, including Throne, that are developing toilet-mounted health trackers.
So I thought I'd do a little bit of an overview about the technology, whether it's useful, and then pose a much stranger question of what happens when your poo becomes data because there's been something happen there as well that I need to fill you in on.
They're, they're not particularly new, but there's been a few updates in this space that I thought was worth revisiting.
Oh, for me specifically, who's in love with the idea of a Japanese toilet, please.
I think we've gotten to a point, though, where it's started to feel like something that we find at a CES, at one of these tech trade shows-
... as a weird thing from the future, and more like its own actual consumer technology category because there's more reviews coming out, and there's more people that are actually using them day to day, and there's been a few more updates in the space.
There's a whole bunch of new hands-on reviews from people who've actually lived with it for-
... that is analyzing urine, and there's companies, including Throne, that are developing toilet-mounted health trackers.
So I thought I'd do a little bit of an overview about the technology, whether it's useful, and then pose a much stranger question of what happens when your poo becomes data because there's been something happen there as well that I need to fill you in on.
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