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Tim Draper backs pee-testing welless tracker – TechCrunch
Billionaire VC Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) has led a $6 million Series A in wellness tracking startup, Vivoo. Also participating in the funding round is ONCE Ventures, Revo Capital, 500 Startups (which backed its pre-seed), Global Ventures, and (the female-led consumer tech startup focused) Halogen Ventures. The personalized nutrition and lifestyle startup sells subscription-based at-home urine test kits that work in conjunction with an app. Its machine learning technology remotely analyzes a user's peed-on test strip to serve up custom'wellness' insights, then and there, offering recommendations across a range of areas such as nutrition and biological function. The startup's founding team is led by CEO and co-founder Miray Tayfun, a serial founder and bioengineer by background who graduated from Stanford's postgraduate programs.
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The New AI Toilets Will Scan Your Poop To Diagnose Your Ailments
Well, it's sounds weird but in the upcoming future, your toilet will be your mini doctor. A company called Micron is developing a smart artificial intelligence-powered toilet that will reportedly be able to diagnose your state of health and risk of disease by analyzing your bodily waste. The major goal of this technology is to analyze bowel movements and recognize the signs for health issues or ailments early on. This information will also use to understand the early symptoms of certain diseases. "Medicine is going toward precision medicine and precision health," said Sanjay Mehrotra, he is the Chief Executive of Memory Chipmaker Micron Technology.