The Next Frontier Of Health Tracking Is Happening In Your Toilet

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• Withings' U-Scan is now disposable to bargain successful nan US. 
• The 2 U-Scans show nutrition and kidney stones. 
• The instrumentality sits wrong your toilet - and comes astatine a steep cost.

These days, wellness trackers aren't only astir wrists aliases fingers collecting bosom rate, slumber duration, and assemblage somesthesia data. The latest ones are successful toilets, sensing urine and monitoring biomarkers for illustration hydration, nutrition, and more. 

Withings connected Wednesday launched its U-Scan Nutrio and U-Scan Calci, 2 toilet urine sensors for nutrition and kidney chromatic tracking. 

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The U-Scan attaches to nan wrong of a toilet vessel (and comes equipped pinch gloves for insertion and cleaning). Withings builds nan instrumentality for illustration a miniature urine study laboratory wrong nan shell-shaped sensor. Unlike its biggest competitor, Kohler Health's Dekoda, nan U-Scan does not see a camera. Only a thermal sensor and interchangeable cartridges of miniaturized biochemical sensors are wrong nan device. The instrumentality takes only a fewer drops of urine for its sample analysis, Withings says. 

Scheduling your urine analysis

After personification uses nan U-Scan, they tin position their results, for illustration hydration, nutritional balance, and calcium trends, successful nan app. Withings+, nan required rank activated pinch nan acquisition of U-Scan, offers users recommendations and further insights connected their urine data. Users person to schedule windows to activate nan sensor for a urine analysis. 

Between analyses, nan instrumentality recharges and cleans itself wrong 3 hours. The cartridges past up to 3 months, but nan long whitethorn alteration based connected wave of usage. 

Could urine unlock nan adjacent frontier successful wellness tracking? Withings and its competitors look to beryllium betting connected it. In a property merchandise announcing nan U-Scan, Withings' laminitis and president Eric Carreel said urine serves arsenic a precise and broad model into a person's health. Going to nan bath is besides a regular activity that everybody participates in, dissimilar wrapping a locator astir a wrist aliases wearing a smart ringing to bed. 

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U-Scan's premise is simple: People are flushing down captious wellness accusation each day. What if a instrumentality could continuously show and seizure this information, past present accessible results connected an app? 

Those insights and recommendations travel astatine a steep cost. The proactive package, which covers 3 months of nan device, is $380 pinch renewal costing $100, and its intensive package (which besides covers 3 months of usage) is $450 pinch renewal costing $180. That's connected apical of a Withings+ membership, which costs $100 annually, aliases $10 a month. 

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