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Fueled by the pandemic, a rising trend in remote or home health care innovations is expected to be one of the major themes at the annual CES gathering<br> Pillows that stifle snores, urine-testing toilets, and “digital twins” for safer surgeries were all on display at a CES gadget fest in Las Vegas Tuesday, ahead of the opening of the consumer electronics extravaganza.<br> Fueled by the pandemic, a rising trend in remote or home healthcare innovations is expected to be one of the major themes at the annual CES gathering.<br> “We are going to see some really interesting health gadgets that monitor or improve your well-being,” Avi Greengart, a technology analyst with Techsponential, said of the show.<br> – Snore-silencing pillow -<br> South Korea-based 10Minds showed off a pillow with a built-in microphone that detects snoring, then triggers soundless airbags that change size to gently turn a sleeper’s head to a position that makes it easy to breathe quietly.<br> “When you start snoring, right away it detects it,” company representative Daehyun Kim told AFP at the CES Unveiled event.<br> “It even distinguishes your snoring from your dog snoring, or your spouse.”<br> The pillow, which syncs with a smartphone app, collects data which is analyzed to identify snoring patterns to hone its response over time, Kim added.<br> “It’s (a) very simple solution,” Kim said.<br> – Toilet turned lab -<br> Digital health and wellness company Withings was at Unveiled with a U-Scan device that lets people analyze their urine by peeing as they normally might into a toilet.<br> Digital health and wellness company Withings was at Unveiled with a U-Scan device that lets people analyze their urine by peeing as they normally might into a toilet<br> A disk that hangs inside a toilet bowl can house changeable cartridges, one of which monitors a woman’s menstruation cycle and another of which measures nutritional health indicators such as vitamin C and ketone levels.<br> “It helps people monitor their metabolic intake to optimize their daily hydration and nutrients,” the French company said in a release.<br> “It recommends workouts, dietary suggestions, and recipes to achieve identified goals.”<br> The in-toilet device syncs wirelessly to a smartphone app.<br> U-Scan can even distinguish between various users based on “an individual’s urine stream signature,” according to the company.<br> Withings will debut U-Scan in Europe in the second quarter of this year, at a price of 500 euros for a starter kit.<br> It will not be available in the United States until getting approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.<br> – Digital twin -<br> France-based Abys displayed technology that enables surgeons to create “digital twins” of patients using data from X-rays and other standard medical scans.<br> Surgeons can then precisely plan an operation, reducing the time it takes and the risk involved, company co-founder Arnaud Destainville told AFP.<br> In operating rooms, surgeons can use Microsoft HoloLens mixed reality headsets to access a patient’s hologram “twin” and other data as they work, Destainville said.<br> “All the planning, all the information becomes available during the surgery,” Destainville said.<br> US regulators approved the Abys innovation last week, according to the co-founder.<br> – Armchair masseuse -<br> A Bodyfriend massage chair billed as a medical device kneads muscles, applies heat and even pulses electromagnetic waves that are supposed to ease aches and pains<br> South Korean company Bodyfriend is taking aim at neck and back aches caused by sitting hunched over screens.<br> A Bodyfriend massage chair billed as a medical device kneads muscles, applies heat and even pulses electromagnetic waves that are supposed to ease aches and pains.<br> “Our technology helps solve problems created by technology” since spending time on one’s phone and other screens can create back problems, Pragmatic Play said Bodyfriend North America manager Changjoo Kim.<br>
