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From: commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Big brother
Message-ID: <1164@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 88 14:30:43 GMT
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cross-posted: sci.electronics, rec.humor

>Have you heard about the "Smart toilet"??
>
>It will monitor your blood pressure, check your urine to see if there
>is anything amiss, (and inform the user).
>
>It will also foward the data (via phone lines) to a lab for a second
>opinion! 

Sounds like a forerunner of Larry Niven's "Autodoc!"

>I can see it now...

 ...in  all  the  yuppie catalogs:   Transparent  seat  with  LED 
readouts inside.   Weighs you before and after,  prints a monthly 
report with bar-graphs and pie-charts
(so to speak).

              +----------------------------------+
              |       DON'T BE A DUMB SH*T,      |
              | GET THE SMART SEAT FROM HEATHKIT!|
              +----------------------------------+
                   With optional Auto-Wipe(tm)

But whatever you do, DON'T push the ATR button!

--

Frank
reid@gold.bacs.indiana.edu