Smart toilet seat flags AFib with hospital-grade ECG accuracy

German company Hamberger Medical’s HARO EKG-seat—a smart toilet seat with built-in 6-lead ECG sensors—detected atrial fibrillation as reliably as standard clinic EKGs in a study, using a 30-second sit and a smartphone app; results await independent peer review, but the tech could enable earlier AFib detection amid rising cases (about 12.1 million U.S. adults by 2030), reducing stroke risk since many patients have no symptoms.