Urine luck: These CES startups want to take a closer look at your waste

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[FarCenter]

You wait for years for a urine analysis company, then all of them hit their flow all at once. One of the notable trends at CES in Las Vegas this year was that the quantified-self movement is going deeper. No longer content with just measuring your heart rate, number of steps and EKG on your wrist, a new generation of startups is inching toward full-on medical-grade analysis of its users.

Here are a few to keep an eye on:

[FarCenter]

New streaming services.

[lightman]

That pizzes me off!

[Bob434]

urethra for it or against it

[Jonty30]

They will be as relevant to me as any other streaming service.

[lightman]

Pizz be upon them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I know! They can name it “Pissanos.”

[KarlInOhio]

This would be interesting if it gave me and only me the results. The problem with all of these devices is that they want to communicate the results back to their headquarters for their secret uses. Oh, your potassium is low? Maybe they can sell that information to local grocery stores to tell me to buy more bananas.

Similarly, I just bought a new, stand alone GPS unit for my new car even though I could get GPS over my phone just by letting Google track my every step by turning on the phone's location service. Nope, it's off until I need it for a couple of minutes and then off for another couple of weeks.

[lightman]

Fwack Tulsa (and Tesla!)

[lightman]

Seriously, unless traveling more than 50 miles away from home I will ABSO:LUTL:EY NOT enable “location services” for Google.

At home I am royally pizzed that I need to scroll east from Tulsa if “too much” time has passed since activating Google maps but I WILL NOT give in to their coercion.

Vive la Resistance!

[5th MEB]

NOBODY but me needs to know where I am, why I am there, or what I’m doing while I am there.

That’s my business and MY business only.

[mad_as_he$$]

I vaguely remember this being predicted about 25 years ago in a magazine or a scientific article I read. In any case I see a future market for masking agents that will fool the detectors.

[Gay State Conservative]

I routinely listen to WOR in New York on weekday mornings (Mark Simone...great host...huge Trump supporter) and every 5 minutes they run an ad for "NJ Diets",an outfit that guarantees a 20 pound weight loss in 40 days. "Or your money back"!

The ad says that they,among other things,test your blood and I'm almost certain that it says that they test your pee as well.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I have a feeling that the Location Services you are allowed to turn off is just the service that allows you to get updated information - your location is still being quietly provided to Google without your knowledge.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

These guys are way behind the company that analyzes your poop. The poop analysis industry has commercials and a friendly mascot.

[ridesthemiles]

I have driven over a million miles in a number of vehicles over the past 66 + years.

Put over 444,000 miles on one vehicle alone.

2 current vehicles have combined 569,000 miles—both pre-1980 models.

NEVER used a GPS. Maps worked fine.