World’s first hands-free connected home urine lab created

A modern bathroom suite.

Withings, a specialist in connected health, has developed U-Scan, which it describes as a breakthrough in-home biomarker analysis platform.

One of the company’s most technologically advanced devices to date, U-Scan is a miniaturised health lab that hygienically sits within any toilet bowl to unlock the wealth of health information in daily urine.

The device, which took four years to develop, has already been recognised by the Consumer Technology Association as a CES...

4 January 2023 | Healthcare

Kaspersky: Attacks on IoT devices double in a year

Research from the cybersecurity gurus at Kaspersky has found that attacks targeting IoT devices have doubled over the past year.

The rapid proliferation of IoT devices, combined with often poor security, makes them an increasingly attractive target for hackers. Analysts at McKinsey estimate that 127 new devices are connected every second.

Dan Demeter, Security Expert at Kaspersky, said:

“Since IoT devices, from smartwatches to smart home accessories, have...

7 September 2021 | IoT