🚽 Medical laboratories move into your toilet bowl
Several products that can analyze your urine every time you pee will be launched during the year.
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At the electronics expo CES, which recently took place in Las Vegas, urine was a perhaps somewhat unexpected theme.
Several manufacturers presented products that could either be hung down in the toilet bowl or that were built into a new toilet seat.
What they have in common is that they can analyze the urine, send the results to a mobile app, and display information about ovulation, pH level, dehydration, and nutritional deficiency among other things.
The manufacturers point out that their products should not be used as a substitute for a doctor's visit. But they can give users information that something might not be right and that it's worth talking to a doctor.
Most products, such as Whiting's Uscan, use reaction paper that is analyzed inside the device. One manufacturer, Olive, on the other hand, has chosen to build a toilet seat that uses LED lights to shine through the urine and perform a spectrographic analysis.
During the autumn, the first products will go on sale in Europe. The prices will vary, but for example, the Whitings Uscan should cost around 500 euros.
Kent Olofsson
Kent Olofsson
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