Speaking as a physician this definitely looks like the Theranos of piss…
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CES 2023: Withings Debuts iPhone-Connected Urine Reader That Goes in Your Toilet
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That patent examiner was thrilled to finally have a good response to “how was your day, honey?”
Noninvasive automated health diagnostics. Cool.
Kidney stones can be a living hell... it was a hell for me for a whole month.. sometimes just worrying when the next bout of pain will come in. Couldn't concentrate on or enjoy anything..
and then the final day 12+ hours of constant pain... Yes this can be a good technology..
But for me, the burden and cost of having to change cartridges every 3 months outweighs what benefit it may give me.. :/ Thankfully I haven't had a stone in years.. now that I'm aware of what it means and how important it is to keep the whole system flushing itself with a high intake of water.. Best wishes friend, may you never get another.
It pizzez me off the iPhone doesn’t do this out the box. Oh wait… 😏 *remembers it’s waterproof*
We can do away with ICANN because now everybody has a personal iPee address.
If you have the newer one with the ECG on it, then the following rant doesn't apply...
Yeah, their blood pressure cuff is a work of art - truly a nice clean design. Too bad it doesn't read BP worth a damn. Every reading after the first few days with it are reading dangerously high - like consistently 15-20 points too high.
Honestly, if yours works, I'm glad. I wanted mine to work too. Took it to my GP when they took my blood pressure and when it read 161/89 and their device said 139/84, well, that pretty much clinched it. It's junk.
That's be great. Have the app project an image of a fly crawling around the iPhone screen, stopping to visit each of the test ports. Give an online score for distance, stream flow, and accuracy. Include a free Shewee (look it up) for the ladies.
I hear they're working on a mini-mini pro version too (you basically catheterize yourself with it).
Piss stream detection is literally the new way of fingerprinting pattern? I’ve heard it all now 😅
What a brilliant device if it works, but, it may turn you into a hypochondriac as some of these health sensors do. might be useful tool though.
On a serious note, I’d actually be interested in this for my youngest, but it doesn’t detect enough. My youngest had cancer in her spinal cord when she was 17 months old. She’s been clear for 9 years now, but the cancer left her with reduced sensation, mobility issues and double incontinence. Because she can’t tell when she needs to change her absorbent underwear she gets frequent UTIs, that because of her condition, don’t hurt at all, so can go unnoticed for days, weeks, or longer. She does use the toilet normally as well but she has no sensation of need so goes at specific times, and kids can get distracted easily and forget. The announced cartridges do not seem to check for the factors present in a UTI, protein, leukocytes, ketones and blood. So I guess for now we need to keep using normal urinalysis strips. But if a pod came out that detected these I’d define get one for earlier detection and treatment. Because a UTI that goes unnoticed for about 6 weeks is nasty, prety hard to diagnose and get rid of.
I can get 100 urine tests strips from Amazon for £9. They do the same thing (except measure Vit C- why you would want to know that is beyond me).
For health nuts and athletes that compete. However, it’s incredibly expensive. $299 or $350 and it might have a decent market.
What? I'd say that ensuites have been fairly standard on most new British 3/4 bedroom houses for a few decades now.
Nah, a lot of people who could afford this don't have a second bathroom. Most people around the world live in cities nowadays, a lot of them in flats which are often not big enough to offer second bathrooms. I live in an European capital and personally only know 1 person here who has more than one bathroom (she lives a little outside). It's different in the small town where I grew up, where almost everybody lives in a house. But that's the minority overall.
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