Federal Grant: $6.9 Million to Develop 'Smart Toilet' That Identifies Your 'Analprint'

By Michael W. Chapman
| December 28, 2020 | 2:29pm EST
(Source: Sanjiv S. Gambhir/Nature Biomedical Engineering, Interestingengineering.com)
(CNS News) -- In his latest report on federal government waste, a project he completes every year, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) highlights $54.7 billion in government spending that he deems wasteful. Among the items noted this year is the creation of a $6.9 million "smart toilet," which operates with three cameras, one of which can identify a user's "analprint."
As explained in
The Festivus Report 2020, researchers at Stanford University used $6,973,057 in funds granted through the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a so-called "smart toilet."

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