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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Vivoo introduced a smart menstrual pad at CES.
- It turns period blood into data insights.
- The health company also launched its smart toilet sensor.
The next generation of health wearables isn’t wrapped around wrists or fingers. They’re lodged inside toilets and menstrual pads.
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At-home health and wellness testing company Vivoo unveiled its conceptual FlowPad at CES in Las Vegas on Monday, alongside the launch of the Vivoo Smart Toilet, an optical clip-on sensor that measures hydration.
The future of hormone health
The FlowPad looks like your run-of-the-mill menstrual pad but is built with a microfluidic diagnostic layer underneath that directs menstrual blood into biomarker zones for testing fertility, ovarian health, and perimenopausal hormones. The results of the test show up in Vivoo’s app after a user scans the pad’s results through their phone camera or enters them manually.
The ethos behind FlowPad and Vivoo’s smart toilet is simple. Fluids like menstrual blood or urine can convey lots of information about a person’s internal wellness. Primarily, menstrual blood contains hormones and signals that reflect the endocrine system’s overall health. Recent studies have found that it can also be used to diagnose hormonal imbalances, cervical cancer, endometriosis, chlamydia, and diabetes, among other endocrine disorders.
“FlowPad shows how an everyday biological process can become a powerful source of knowledge. This is the future of hormone health: accessible, effortless, and human-centered,” Miray Tayfun, CEO and co-founder of Vivoo, says in a press release.
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The app informs users which days to take their hormone tests, as hormones fluctuate throughout a person’s menstrual cycle. Users are encouraged to wear the FlowPad once a day during the second or third day of their period. The pad includes a standard lateral flow test, a kind of test used for diagnostics like COVID or pregnancy.
Because the pad isn’t Bluetooth-enabled, users scan the bottom of the pad, where the test lives, through the app to analyze results. The app interprets the microchannel patterns, hue shifts, and reaction intensities to provide insights.
So, why would you measure period blood?
In an interview with ZDNET, Tayfun outlines a few use cases for the FlowPad. The pH indicator can paint a holistic picture of vaginal health and a balanced or unbalanced microbiome. It’s also helpful for fertility and conception, and perimenopausal and menopausal customers use it to stay on track with hormone treatments.
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Vivoo intends to make the pads as similar to an over-the-counter menstrual pad as possible, and each pad is estimated to cost between $4 and $5.
Vivoo’s smart toilet sensor will convert urine into another vehicle for biological insights into hydration. Unlike some competing smart toilet sensors, which can cost anywhere from $300 to $500, Vivoo plans to keep the cost of its device lower at $99. Additionally, there’s no subscription fee for usage.
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