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Comment by schmuckonwheels | Hacker News Reader

Imagine the collective brainpower that could be used to help solve the world's ills, and instead decided, no, what we need is a camera pointed at your asshole which we feed into an AI-powered SaaS we can then sell to you for a subscription. This industry is finished.

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It’s pretty impressive that that juicero thing wasn’t the most bizarre thing they could come up with.

I watched a teardown of it and the truly bizarre thing was that the build quality was actually amazing. Machined out of a huge block of aluminum, really big bearings, etc.

That was part of why it failed though. The over-engineering made it very hard to recover costs

it literally just squeezed juice out of a plastic packet, that's it.

It's pointed at the toilet bowl contents though it may catch some scrot in the edge of frame depending upon ambient temperatures.

https://images.ctfassets.net/veq5rt4lbvkn/2bpiwr3gYoRPnXqB8e...

Can you send it in for servicing when the lens becomes obscured ?

Hopefully in a tyvek mailer...

I just want to note: I upvoted you for the phrase "catch some scrot".

"[D]epending upon ambient tempertures and user age" is probably more accurate.

Someone's going to get a gnarly push notification on their phone about grandpa at 2:00 AM.

This is downstream from the notion that companies need to have infinite growth forever. Of course, that's not possible, so this is the end stages of that: wealth trickles up while the, well... you can guess what's trickling down.

Ironically, "Trickle-Down Economics" was phrased in a circa-1900 political cartoon as "The horse eats the grain, and then trickles it down to the sparrow on the barn floor." I'll let you picture the image.

They claim it only points about your doings, but even then...

Is there a spare 'i' in your post?

its almost like there is no collective making the absurd decision you suppose is being made somewhere. no one is going to pay my rent for solving the worlds ills whatever that means.

Who the hell buys this...

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