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‘Smart toilet’ that takes anal prints wins Ig Nobel Prize (lavocedinewyork.com)
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‘Smart toilet’ that takes anal prints wins Ig Nobel Prize::We have smart phones, smart cars, smart watches and...smart toilets? Well, now we do. Seung-min Park's Stanford Toilet captured an

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ IG-noh-BEL) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble.

Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University, and are followed by the winners' public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

lol nice

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

That makes much more sense