TECH

Toilet Seat Could Save Your Ass
Our morning routine could be appended to something like "breakfast, stretching, sit on a medical examiner, shower, then commute." If we are speaking seriously, we do not always get to our morning stretches, on the morning agenda. We would like to see a portion of our readers read this article. The examiner could come in the form of a toilet seat. This IoT throne is the next device you did not know you needed because it can take measurements to detect signs of heart failure every time you take the load off.
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 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.

We are not sure if this particular hardware will be open-source, probably, but there is a lesson here about putting people where they 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 badass morning alarm, but it tries to kill you, it will need some work and if you make a gorgeous clock with the numbers all messed up ... okay, we dig that particular one for different reasons. Brian McEvoy