Withings U-Scan
Withings is a brand well known for its health and fitness tracking tech, including smartwatches, smart bathroom scales, and even smart thermometers, but at CES 2023 it debuted one of the most peculiar health gadgets we’ve seen to date. The Withings U-Scan is the first gadget you actually need to drop in the toilet, as it’s designed to make health assessments by analyzing a user’s urine. It can even differentiate between different people based on their stream.
A heat-triggered pump automatically draws in a urine sample and sends it through a “microfluidic circuit” to a cartridge filled with three months worth of test pods, where chemical reactions are triggered when certain biomarkers are detected. An optical sensor analyzing color-changing test strips then allows a connected app to make assessments on everything from fertility cycles to a user’s daily intake of water and nutrients, without having to send anything off to a lab. -Andrew Liszewski
