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Big Toilet is Watching You

" Toto, short for Tōyō Tōki (Oriental Ceramics), is a Japanese toilet manufacturer that designed the Intelligence Toilet II. This toilet analyzes our excreta and records data like weight, BMI, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. It even has a sample catcher in the bowl to obtain urine samples, which for instance can used to predict pregnancies. This information is then sent to your PC, showing your vital health stats." It would be a simple effort to share this information with your doctor and even with your health insurer. Imagine this, " You just went to the toilet and that triggered an automatic email informing you that your health insurance went up." The future is here; resistance is futile. And, maybe, just maybe, there are monsters in the toilets after all. News link

Good (Protocol) Design Lasts Forever

Want to learn the technology that's in the center of the Web 2.0 storm?  It's a simple thing like REST that created the synergy that allows different web services to have the multiplication effect.   Still trying to decode above diagram? No need, that's way too complicated, to learn REST, just go back to the original design of HTTP , and stick to it. In case you also need a language to code http easily,  here is a javascript http hello world . A powerful design, like HTTP, last forever. And the beautify is, it's as simple as you could get/understand.