Chinese Public Toilets Now Scan Your Urine For Health Problems

Chinese Public Toilets Now Scan People’s Urine For Health Problems

Public restrooms in China have rolled out high-tech “health checking” urinals that can analyze urine for a variety of health markers — and costs those looking for a screening less than $3.

The futuristic urinals have recently begun popping up in some public men’s restrooms in major Chinese cities, like Beijing and Shanghai, and claim they can quickly and accurately test urine on site for just 20 yuan, which equals about $2.76.

Shanghai-based documentary director Christian
Petersen-Clausen posted about the innovative find in a now-viral X thread, noting, “A private company is offering the urine analysis for RMB 20. Naturally I tried that out.”

 

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In the thread Petersen-Clausen brushed off privacy concerns, saying he hasn’t had a health check in a while and was “more worried about knowing everything is OK and the convenience is unbeatable.”

“The whole process is about as easy as one might think. I paid my fee via WeChat and before I even made it down the escalator had my results,” Petersen-Clausen wrote alongside photos of the high-tech machine, which shows a man peeing into the urinal along with an explanation written in Mandarin.

His results, which said he lacked Calcium, were
“otherwise unremarkable,” he said.

The futuristic urinals can check urine for a variety of health markers. Christian Petersen-Clausen/X
Petersen-Clausen later stumbled upon another health-checking urinal and took a second test, which reported his Calcium levels had gotten better.

“The company seems to be installing them all over China and given how important early detection of health issues is I think this is quite good,” he said.