by: Jamie Cuevas
Kohler, the faucet and toilet brand, is expanding into the tech market in a rather innovative and unusual way; by launching Dekoda, a $600 iPhone-connected toilet camera that monitors your waste for various health metrics.
Dekoda apparently can monitor your hydration levels and provide other information about your gut health, as well as detect signs of blood in the toilet bowl. It works by placing the Dekoda device on the rim of your toilet bowl, which peers down into the toilet to observe what’s going on there with “sensors” (cameras of some sort), and then this information is analyzed and reported back to you – the pooper – as results and insight through an iPhone app. The Dekoda device even has a fingerprint reader on it so that multiple users can monitor their toilet activity, without confusing everyone’s bowel movements.
