This New Kohler Sensor Is Like A Health Detective In Your Toilet - Tiny Camera And All

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Kohler's Dekoda will people your hydration. 
• Dekoda monitors pee, bowel movements, and humor successful nan toilet bowl. 
• The instrumentality retails for $599 and launched connected Wednesday. 

You astir apt aren't drinking capable water, and Kohler's newest instrumentality tells you truthful -- from your toilet. Kohler unveiled Dekoda, a sensor that attaches to a toilet to show hydration, gut health, hemoglobin, and more. 

The instrumentality uses a spectroscopy sensor and a mini camera to show what's going into nan toilet bowl. The sensors analyse hydration levels, bowel movements, and hemoglobin levels wrong nan bowl. The position of nan camera is pointed down, truthful Dekoda only monitors what is successful nan toilet bowl.

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Dekoda is nan latest wellness tech instrumentality that passively monitors individual information and turns it into easy viewable wellness accusation that a personification tin address. It besides turns mundane activities, for illustration peeing, into a quantifiable information constituent and score. The app gives users a hydration rating, efficaciously scoring them connected really overmuch h2o they've drunk each day. 

The Dekoda latches onto a toilet to show urination. 

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A Dekoda user's information is stored wrong nan app, wherever they tin position really galore days they were hydrated, their hydration rating, really galore Dekoda sessions they've had, whether they had regular bowel movements passim nan week, and which days humor was recovered successful nan toilet vessel passim nan month. 

The instrumentality clamps to nan toilet, and its artillery runs for astir a week unplugged. 

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Several members of a family tin usage Dekoda individually by creating abstracted accounts connected nan app and rubbing nan digit authenticator, which connects to each account, earlier activating nan bowl. Kohler said it's built nan instrumentality pinch privateness and end-to-end encryption successful mind. 

Kohler launched Dekoda nether Kohler Health, a caller branch of nan company, Kohler announced today. Kohler is simply a 150-year-old bath and room appliance company. So why is it venturing into integer health? The institution seems to beryllium betting connected creating health-tracking devices for nan bathroom, a spot wherever truthful overmuch health-monitoring happens already. 

"Kohler Health isn't conscionable different app aliases product. It's a promise. It's a committedness that your location tin play a much progressive domiciled successful your well-being, that routines that we sometimes return for granted tin uncover valuable insights that genuinely matter," CEO David Kohler said astatine Dekoda's motorboat event. 

Dekoda isn't nan first toilet sensor. Smart toilets moreover had a infinitesimal astatine CES 2023, pinch offerings from Withings and Vivoo. 

The mobility remains: will much group consciousness comfortable latching a sensor onto their toilet than they do keeping a wearable astir their wrist 24/7? And will they salary $599 to show this individual information?