Health gadgets

[ron ll]

We already know an Apple Watch can tell us a lot about our health, now a new app claims it can tell BP, heart rate, depression, anxiety etc from a selfie pic. But my favorite might be the smart toilet that analyzes your urine and sends the results to your iPhone. It’s a new age out there.

[bluedog225]

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I need to get an apple watch for my place. Will help keep they coyotes from getting the body.

[Joe (SoCal)]

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My toothbrush and my scale talk to my iPhone and all the data is in my health app.

[epoxyboy]

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The apple watch ad currently running on TV here says it can even tell when I'm ovulating! Pretty damn impressive .

Pete

[Garret]

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A guy near me has an automatic talking toilet. Recognizes your voice & asks men if they will be standing or sitting. What disappointed me was that the TP does not automatically dispense 2 sheets at a time when you touch it.

Dunno if the toilet does any more than that (probably does) - but the guy who installed it said it cost $3,000US.

[ron ll]

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A guy near me has an automatic talking toilet. Recognizes your voice & asks men if they will be standing or sitting. What disappointed me was that the TP does not automatically dispense 2 sheets at a time when you touch it.

Dunno if the toilet does any more than that (probably does) - but the guy who installed it said it cost $3,000US.

Next I suppose they’ll have one that gives you a prostate exam if it determines a man is sitting.

[hawkeye54]

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You know, you will 'lose status' if you have just a plain vanilla toilet, without all the features ! ! ! (Somewhere out there, is a toilet seat that gently reminds you to put it back down, if you have raised it on your nightly visit - I kid you not )





Rick

[TomF]

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"To know the good is to do the good". Or so argued Plato.

Some truth to it - data is hugely useful to track change, and deduce whether the change we're trying is having an effect.

But "to know the good is to do the good" only goes so far. Most of our negative habits are ways we farm dopamine and serotonin. We want that stuff more than we want a hypothetical extra few years of life, or even more hypothetical extra few years of a life we'd enjoy living.

Once a person's made the jump, found their compelling reason to shift behavior from this to that, then the data tools are hugely helpful. But they don't do much to provide that reason.

[John Meachen]

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The apple watch ad currently running on TV here says it can even tell when I'm ovulating! Pretty damn impressive .

Pete

That could be your passport to fame and fortune!

[Garret]

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You know, you will 'lose status' if you have just a plain vanilla toilet, without all the features ! ! ! (Somewhere out there, is a toilet seat that gently reminds you to put it back down, if you have raised it on your nightly visit - I kid you not )

Rick

The one I mentioned above auto-flushes & lowers the seat & cover automagically.

[Stiletto]

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We already know an Apple Watch can tell us a lot about our health, now a new app claims it can tell BP, heart rate, depression, anxiety etc from a selfie pic. But my favorite might be the smart toilet that analyzes your urine and sends the results to your iPhone. It’s a new age out there.

That would piss me off!

[JayInOz]

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I see quite a few big fancy treadmills at the tip. I keep thinking there has to be a way to convert one of them into a most awesome belt sander. It's been added to the list of things to have a go at before the end of the century JayInOz

[Ralphie Boy]

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Those treadmills (and other home gym equipment) work great to hang your laundry on!

[wizbang 13]

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These are fitness gadgets , not health gadgets .
not the same thing

[oldcodger]

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You know, you will 'lose status' if you have just a plain vanilla toilet, without all the features ! ! ! (Somewhere out there, is a toilet seat that gently reminds you to put it back down, if you have raised it on your nightly visit - I kid you not )


Rick

I was looking at replacing my toilet, yesterday I came across a company that sells toilet seats that glow in the dark so you don't need to turn on the lights.