The CES tech present (referred to as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada is stuffed with well being devices this yr. Connected gadgets are headed in all places, even to the bathroom bowl.

French agency Withings is debuting U-Scan, an at-home urine lab that gives vitamin suggestions and may inform girls the place they’re of their menstrual cycle.

“There is a mono-user device and we have integrated a feature called stream ID, we are able to actually recognize and identify the user who is urinating on the product, so we will only collect the urine when it’s you using the product,” explains Inna Ndaw, the product proprietor of Withings.

The machine is simply 90 mm in diameter and sits inside most rest room bowls.

Elizabeth Coleon from Withings says they’re planning two completely different client merchandise, one focused in the direction of hospitals and different healthcare settings, the opposite, for customers.

“Urine actually has over 3,000 metabolites. So it’s a well of information that is typically not used very much because it’s very difficult to access. Most people do not like to go and have a urinalysis. Typically, people will go once a year to get tested instead of having that information tested over a regular basis and be given regular data, which can give much more insight on how to improve health,” she says.

The outcomes are delivered to a smartphone app, offering evaluation and suggestions primarily based on the info. U-Scan will likely be made accessible in Europe by the center of 2023.

A starter package is predicted to value nearly 500 US {dollars}.