Withings has a new streaming platform. No, not that kind of streaming.
The health tech company announced U-Scan at CES 2023 on Tuesday. It’s a smart device that analyses your pee from the comfort of your bathroom.
The pebble-shaped gadreceive fits in a toilet bowl and captures urine, which is then analyzed internally by cartridges that assess various biomarkers. The applyr can check the results through the Withings Health Mate app and share it with their doctor.
But U-Scan isn’t just for one-off urinalysis. Your pee contains a continuous treasure trove of information about your health, fitness, and fertility. Separate cartridges in the U-Scan allow you to monitor hydration, nutrition, metabolism, vitamin levels, or ovulation and menstruation. All health data is compliant with Europe’s GDPR privacy regulations.
The nutrition and hydration cartridge informs the app about your hydration, your protein and vereceiveable intake, carbohydrate intake, and vitamin C levels applying biomarkers like pH balance and ketone levels. The cycle tracking cartridge can pinpoint your menstruation cycle and ovulation window by measuring luteinizing hormone levels.
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By logging what you eat and how much water you drink, the app gives you tailored recommfinishations for recipes and workouts.
So yes, pee journaling is now officially a thing.
If you share a bathroom with others, Withings has obtained you covered like a toilet seat. U-Scan’s “Stream ID” feature applys radar sensors “to identify an individual’s urine stream signature, by detecting the relocatement and distance of the stream,” the company declares.
Bursting to purchase one? If you live in Europe, you’re in luck. U-Scan will be available to purchase there in early spring 2023. It’s also in development for the U.S. market, pfinishing FDA approval. The starter kit comes with a rechargeable reader and cartridge intfinished to last for three months, including battery life.
U-Scan is selling for 500 euros. So it’s not cheap, but with all the health insights to be mined, your pee will be liquid gold.
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