{"id":87890,"date":"2019-02-18T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/toilet-seat-could-save-your-ass"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:24:35","slug":"toilet-seat-could-save-your-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/toilet-seat-could-save-your-ass","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Seat Could Save Your Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmemOdsMtcg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our morning routine could be appended to something like \u201cbreakfast, stretching, sit on a medical examiner, shower, then commute.\u201d If we are speaking seriously, we don\u2019t always get to our morning stretches, but a quick medical exam could be on the morning agenda. We would wager that a portion of our readers are poised for that exam as they read this article. The examiner could <a href=\"https:\/\/mhealth.jmir.org\/2019\/1\/e12419\/\" target=\"_blank\">come in the form of a toilet seat<\/a>. This IoT throne is the next device you didn\u2019t know you needed because it can take measurements to detect signs of heart failure every time you take a load off.<\/p>\n<p>Tracking heart failure is not just one test, it is a buttload of tests. Continuous monitoring is difficult although tools exist for each test. It is unreasonable to expect all the at-risk people to sit at a blood pressure machine, inside a ballistocardiograph, with an oximeter on their fingers three times per day. Getting people to browse Hackaday on their phones after lunch is less of a struggle. When the robots overthrow us, this will definitely be held against us.<\/p>\n<p>We are not sure if this particular hardware will be open-source, probably not, but there is a lesson here about putting sensors where people will use them. Despite the low rank on the glamorous scale, from a UX point of view, it is ingenious. How can we flush out our own projects to make them usable? After all, if you build a <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/12\/29\/simone-does-strange-things-with-motors-and-servos\/\">badass morning alarm<\/a>, but it tries to kill you, it will need some work and if you make a <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/09\/22\/topsy-turvy-clock-tells-confusing-time\/\">gorgeous clock with the numbers all messed up <\/a>\u2026okay, we dig that particular one for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/02\/12\/toilet-seat-could-save-your-ass\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/02\/12\/toilet-seat-could-save-your-ass\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our morning routine could be appended to something like \u201cbreakfast, stretching, sit on a medical examiner, shower, then commute.\u201d If we are speaking seriously, we don\u2019t always get to our morning stretches, but a quick medical exam could be on the morning agenda. We would wager that a portion of our readers are poised for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}