A doctor under your futon

According to Dottocomu, Hitachi, a consortium of Japanese companies are working on a system of wirelessly networked devices that monitor your health and detect any problems as you go about your daily business.

– Hitachi is making a mat that slides under your futon and measures pulse, breathing, and snoring while you’re asleep;
– Matsushita is working on a device that allows the “easy measurement of the thickness of flab on your stomach and other areas”,
Toto will bring out a toilet that measures salt and sugar levels in your urine as you piss;
– Mitsubishi works on a system that analyses the data while Fujitsu Prime Software Technologies contributes the communication format that will link everything up. These should start appearing on the market around 2006.

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For those who are passionate about toilets, I came upon the website of The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum this morning.