The relentless rule of my fitness tracker
https://timharford.com/2025/10/the-relentless-rule-of-my-fitness-tracker/
#HackerNews #fitnesstracker #technology #healthtech #motivation #lifestyle
A mere week into 2026, OpenAI launched “ChatGPT Health” in the United States, asking users to upload their personal medical data and link up their health apps in exchange for the chatbot’s advice about diet, sleep, work-outs, and even personal insurance decisions.(from https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/).
This is the probably inevitable endgame of FitBit and other "measured life" technologies. It isn't about health; it's about mass managing bodies. It's a short hop from there to mass managing minds, which this "psychologized" technology is already being deployed to do (AI therapists and whatnot). Fully corporatized human resource management for the leisure class (you and I are not the intended beneficiaries, to be clear; we're the mass).
Neural implants would finish the job, I guess. It's interesting how the tech sector pushes its tech closer and closer to the physical head and face. Eventually the push to penetrate the head (e.g. Neuralink) should intensify. Always with some attached promise of convenience, privilege, wealth, freedom of course.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #ChatGPT #health #HealthTech
ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
https://consciousdigital.org/chatgpt-health-is-a-marketplace-guess-who-is-the-product/
#HackerNews #ChatGPT #Health #marketplace #product #digitalrights #AIethics #healthtech
Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics
https://blog.booleanbiotech.com/oral-microbiome-biogaia
#HackerNews #OralMicrobiome #Probiotics #Sequencing #HealthTech #GutHealth #Microbiology
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/
#HackerNews #Diabetes #Abbott #GlucoseMonitor #HealthTech #PatientSafety #MedicalNews
Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/europe-health-data-us-firm-israel-spies
#HackerNews #EuropeansHealthData #USFirm #ExIsraeliSpies #DataPrivacy #HealthTech
3D-printed carotid artery-on-chips for personalized thrombosis investigation
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202508890
#HackerNews #3Dprinting #personalizedmedicine #thrombosis #biomaterials #healthtech
32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100
https://littlemountainman.github.io/2025/11/17/tens/
#HackerNews #32V #TENS #device #DIY #budgettech #healthtech #innovation
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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🤦🏻♂️ Well, it was probably inevitable that the "Internet of Things" would eventually make its way into the toilet bowl. Kohler's new camera analyzes your waste for 'health insights', which sounds futuristic, but the security questions are concerning. It uses a fingerprint sensor ? to tie sensitive health data directly to an individual, then sends it to the cloud. While they promise encryption, we're creating a honeypot 😬 of incredibly personal information that's ripe for misuse. 💩
TL;DR
📸 Kohler is selling a $599 toilet camera, the Dekoda, to monitor your gut health. 💩
👆 It uses a fingerprint scanner to link the health data it collects directly to you.
🔐 The company claims end-to-end encryption, but this is still an unnervingly specific and sensitive dataset to have stored on any server.
💰 On top of the hardware cost, it also requires a subscription, creating another recurring data transaction.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/kohler-unveils-a-camera-for-your-toilet/
#IoT #Privacy #DataSecurity #HealthTech #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #PoopPictures
🤦🏻♂️ Well, it was probably inevitable that the "Internet of Things" would eventually make its way into the toilet bowl. Kohler's new camera analyzes your waste for 'health insights', which sounds futuristic, but the security questions are concerning. It uses a fingerprint sensor ? to tie sensitive health data directly to an individual, then sends it to the cloud. While they promise encryption, we're creating a honeypot 😬 of incredibly personal information that's ripe for misuse. 💩
TL;DR
📸 Kohler is selling a $599 toilet camera, the Dekoda, to monitor your gut health. 💩
👆 It uses a fingerprint scanner to link the health data it collects directly to you.
🔐 The company claims end-to-end encryption, but this is still an unnervingly specific and sensitive dataset to have stored on any server.
💰 On top of the hardware cost, it also requires a subscription, creating another recurring data transaction.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/kohler-unveils-a-camera-for-your-toilet/
#IoT #Privacy #DataSecurity #HealthTech #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #PoopPictures
Joel Michael
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Do any of my mastodon friends know of health tech communities in Australia? Preferably Melbourne. #healthtech
Do any of my mastodon friends know of health tech communities in Australia? Preferably Melbourne. #healthtech
Tim Chambers
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My colleague Mario is in Cupertino, where Apple has just announced a big high blood pressure feature.
How will this play with the Whoop blood pressure FDA drama from earlier this year? And will this wrongly flag a bunch of Apple Watch users with hypertension?
Read Mario's first thoughts:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/apple-watch-health-tech-blood-pressure-hypertension/
#health #healthcare #healthtech #medicine #wearables #applewatch #apple #hypertension
My colleague Mario is in Cupertino, where Apple has just announced a big high blood pressure feature.
How will this play with the Whoop blood pressure FDA drama from earlier this year? And will this wrongly flag a bunch of Apple Watch users with hypertension?
Read Mario's first thoughts:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/apple-watch-health-tech-blood-pressure-hypertension/
#health #healthcare #healthtech #medicine #wearables #applewatch #apple #hypertension
Dane 🇮🇪 ☮️🕉️⚛️☸️
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I'm Keiron - I build AI stuff for the Welsh NHS and somehow convinced them to let me automate clinical coding.
Big fan of FOSS everything. When I'm not wrangling NHS data, you'll find me taking photos, making music, cooking, or getting wound up about politics.
Chat to me about terrible NHS IT systems or Welsh place names that are impossible to pronounce.
#HealthTech#NHS#FOSS#Photography#Music#Cooking#UKPolitics
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I'm Keiron - I build AI stuff for the Welsh NHS and somehow convinced them to let me automate clinical coding.
Big fan of FOSS everything. When I'm not wrangling NHS data, you'll find me taking photos, making music, cooking, or getting wound up about politics.
Chat to me about terrible NHS IT systems or Welsh place names that are impossible to pronounce.
#HealthTech#NHS#FOSS#Photography#Music#Cooking#UKPolitics
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