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Withings' U-Scan is now available to buy in the US.
The two U-Scans monitor nutrition and kidney stones.
The device sits inside your toilet - and comes at a steep cost.
These days, health trackers aren't only around wrists or fingers collecting heart rate, sleep duration, and body temperature data. The latest ones are in toilets, sensing urine and monitoring biomarkers like hydration, nutrition, and more.
Withings on Wednesday launched its U-Scan Nutrio and U-Scan Calci, two toilet urine sensors for nutrition and kidney stone tracking.
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The U-Scan attaches to the inside of a toilet bowl (and comes equipped with gloves for insertion and cleaning). Withings builds the device like a miniature urine analysis lab inside the shell-shaped sensor. Unlike its biggest competitor, Kohler Health's Dekoda, the U-Scan does not include a camera. Only a thermal sensor and interchangeable cartridges of miniaturized biochemical sensors are inside the device. The device takes only a few drops of urine for its sample analysis, Withings says.
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