"I think it is a
great idea," tweeted a thoughtful and inspired POTUS. "I do a lot of
thinking when I am sitting on my toilet seat. I think it'd be great if the
toilet could monitor my brain waves and work out how my brain works: it would
provide science with a stream of exciting data into the Mind of a Great Man
called Donald Trump via his Bottom. I love you, America! Defecate in peace!"
In the
not-too-distant future, when congestive heart failure patients are being
released from hospital, they may be given a special toilet seat to take home.
That device would measure their vital signs every time they sit on it, sending
alerts if more heart trouble were detected.
Developed by a team at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
the seat is equipped with an electrocardiogram, ballistocardiogram, and a
photoplethysmogram. These allow it measure the patient's heart rate, blood
pressure, blood oxygenation levels, body weight and stroke volume, which is the
amount of blood that the heart pumps out with each beat.
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Special algorithms
analyze all that data, and determine if the patient's condition is
deteriorating – a diagnosis can be made even before the patient develops any
noticeable symptoms.
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