Urine luck: these CES startups need to take a better take a look at your waste

You watch for years for a urine evaluation firm, then all of them hit their circulate all of sudden. One of the notable traits at CES in Las Vegas this 12 months was that the quantified-self motion goes deeper. No longer content material with simply measuring your coronary heart charge, variety of steps, and EKG in your wrist, a brand new technology of startups is inching in direction of full-on medical-grade evaluation of its customers.

Here are just a few to control:

Withings

Withings U-Scan. Image credit score: Withings.

Health {hardware} firm Withings this week launched the U-Scan in Europe, and introduced it’s working with the FDA to safe an U.S. launch as nicely. The product makes use of a hands-free system that may take as much as three months value of measurements with a single cartridge.

Olive

Once you recover from the nervousness of getting that many cameras close to your junk, Olive can get on the go, analysing your pee as you go. Image credit score: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch

Israeli startup Olive not too long ago raised a $10 million round of funding, and guarantees to make use of optics-only to research urine. The firm makes use of a a particular rest room seat, no strips or further equipment required. It is initially aiming at care properties and weak populations, however is hoping to discover a person base throughout a variety of healthcare sectors.

Vivoo

The Vivoo answer dispenses a strip, then slurps it again in for optical evaluation. No touching required. Image credit score: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch

Vivoo has been making at-home urine check strips for a very long time, and it confirmed off the following iteration of its enterprise, with a wise rest room. It’s aimed toward residential carie, aged, and healthcare markets. It offers a handy various for customers who could wrestle to carry out urine testing with hand-held urine strips.

We can solely think about it was feeling slightly awkward about its “world first” advertising and marketing messaging at its sales space. Especially provided that the Vivoo sales space was proper subsequent to Withing’s, the place it was exhibiting off the way it had crushed the ‘world first’ to market.

The product is a prototype, with a broader roll-out within the not-too-distant future. The firm raised a $6 million Series A fundraise in June 2021. The spherical was led by Draper Associates.

Special Zone Master

Well that’s reassuring. Image credit score: SZM

Don’t fear, it wasn’t all urine at CES this 12 months. We additionally discovered SZM – Special Zone Master – which guarantees to do ‘visual analysis’ of your different favourite bodily waste – poop. The firm guarantees to research stool shapes and colour, document the time and frequency of your bowel actions, and detect the presence of blood as nicely.

“Just by taking a closer look at the stool, we can find the first signs of a health problem and take action before it is too late,” the corporate stated in its advertising and marketing supplies. We have been curious to study extra, however the firm’s founders the place nowhere to be discovered – presumably, they have been taking a well-deserved restroom break. It wasn’t solely clear how far alongside the Korean startup was in its journey towards bringing its tech to a bathroom seat close to you.