It’s impossible these days to disconnect technology from your health. Sometimes that’s a good thing, and sometimes that just makes you feel like the confused lady in that meme, with information everywhere and no idea whether something is an emergency, totally normal, or just “bodies are weird, I guess.” Withings has spent years trying to connect people with a better understanding of their health, and the conceptual Withings OMNIA hints at where things could be going!
The idea here is that everything is already interconnected. How you slept three days ago might impact how you work out today, which might impact what food you’re craving in three days.
The Withings OMNIA will be able to do daily scans to check your weight, monitor your nutrition, and determine your overall health. It will also offer an AI vocal companion to help explain your results, as well as integrated telemedicine for virtual consultations. All this with a mirror interface so you can see yourself AND your health stats!
OMNIA will measure and analyze your heart rate, blood pressure, metabolic body composition, activity, nutrition, and sleep. Even if it’s not 100% accurate, it provides a baseline for your health, and from there, you can make adjustments that better fit your life and improve your health.
I know, I know, the Withings OMNIA seems a bit like science fiction, but it will be very cool if it actually delivers.
We have a lot of this data at our fingertips in various ecosystems, but something like the Withings OMNIA allows you to amalgamate all that data into something usable.
For example, I know that I get the best fitness results when I alternate cardio and strength days, but as much as I know I get more out of cardio if I do it in the morning, I’m terrible about actually getting up to do it.
However, if the Withings OMNIA could tell me, “Hey, there’s a quantifiable improvement in your health if you row at 7 a.m. instead of 7 p.m.,” I would probably make an effort not to hit snooze so much.
Obviously, you have to want to be able to use all this health data. But if you’re going to the trouble of tracking it, the Withings OMNIA seems like a wildly cool proof of concept for maximizing the benefits!
While the Withings Omnia is still in development, some features, including clinician reviews and AI guidance, will be available on the Withings app starting this year.
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Wow! The future has already arrived? Of course, this is still a concept, but I hope it will be no worse in reality. Or maybe even better, like in the movie Elysium.
Wild concept, something from “Black Mirror”. But if they really make it and it works, then I will be the first to buy it.
I’m interested in seeing if this becomes an actual product, and if so, all the things it will do and how much it costs.