{"id":225546,"date":"2025-10-19T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T22:53:07","slug":"kohler-unveils-a-camera-for-your-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225546\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohler unveils a camera for your toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda \u2014 a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/health\/medical\/kohler-wants-to-put-a-tiny-camera-in-your-toilet-and-analyze-the-contents\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNET reports<\/a> that the Dekoda analyzes these images in order to provide updates on your gut health and hydration, and to potentially detect blood. It also comes with a rechargeable battery, a USB connection, and a fingerprint sensor to identify who\u2019s using the toilet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dekoda is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kohlerhealth.com\/dekoda\/\" target=\"_blank\">currently available for pre-order<\/a>, with shipments scheduled to begin on October 21. In addition to the hardware purchase fee, customers will need to pay between $70 and $156 for a subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re uneasy about the privacy implications of putting a camera right below your private parts, the company says, \u201cDekoda\u2019s sensors see down into your toilet and nowhere else.\u201d It also notes that the resulting data is secured via end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kohler isn\u2019t the only company seeking to take pictures of your poop \u2014 we\u2019ve also written about <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/10\/20\/thrones-toilet-camera-takes-pictures-of-your-poop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the toilet camera offered by a startup called Throne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda \u2014 a $599 camera that can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,107924,107925,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-225546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dekoda","11":"tag-kohler","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}