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Does the Withings’ Omnia Mirror Reflect the Future of Digital Health? 🪩Withings has introduced Omnia, a full-size smart mirror, at CES 2025, emphasizing futuristic health-tracking features 🪩The mirror, still in concept mode, aims to provide 360-degree body scans, gathering data on weight, heart health, and respiratory metrics in real time 🪩Metrics like sleep, activity, and nutrition would feed into the system from wearable devices and other connected health gadgets 🪩Users could interact via touch or through an AI voice assistant capable of offering feedback, guidance, and motivational prompts 🪩Telehealth functionalities may allow remote consultations with healthcare professionals who can access user metrics directly from the mirror 💬Important to note the concept mirror may never make it as a commercial success, either due to feasibility issues or that is likely to be cost prohibitive for most consumers 💬Past smart mirror projects have struggled, but Withings’ wants to demonstrate how AI, digital health, and connected devices might converge, a kind of 'visionary ecosystem play’ 👇Links to articles in comments below #DigitalHealth #CES2025

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Adrian Brodesser

Founder @ SOMAREALITY // Eye tracking-based cognitive monitoring

2mo

I do not really understand the innovation here. Is this not "just" a smart mirror that shows you your health data? No new data added just a new (very expensive) way to look at it?

I fail to see the need for a device of this physical magnitude in a home. Most people won’t even be able to fit this in their homes, cost aside. Second I hope when and if this comes to market there isn’t a mandate to buy the hardware but rather “lease” it off of a monthly fee ….. But overall many of these measures can be done in much smaller packaging with telehealth to be done on a smart device of pc, this isn’t the future - it’s the past repackaged.

Paul Wicks

Vice President of Neuroscience at Sano Genetics

2mo

Interesting! I love Withings stuff, I think I have owned at least one of everything they make! But I'm also an investor in MAGIC AI and have to say that for me it's strength training that's the game changer. I'm not sure I really change physically often enough for a piece of bedroom real estate like this to be given over to simple measurement - but I'm willing to be convinced!

Asha Yasin

Personalized Healthcare | Biometric Tracking | Nutrition | Genetics

2mo

This feels like a Pinterest idea for solving healthcare. It’s sleek and futuristic, similar to the Lululemon Mirror, and might appeal to a small group for aesthetic reasons. But I’m not sure how this solves anything that smartphones and biometric trackers like WHOOP or the Oura ring aren’t already addressing. Even those tools, which I use and love as a WHOOP user, are still pretty niche and mainly appeal to tech enthusiasts and athletes. So, is this really moving the needle in healthcare, or is it just another flashy gadget for early adopters? Curious what others think!

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Inderjit Singh Sarao

Digital Health | Value Based Care | Angel Investor

2mo

Good concept, but the full-length mirror seems to be a solution looking for a problem to solve. Super interested in the tech/software side of the mirror, and how that can be incorporated into a simpler/existing hardware options vs creating another large device

Thomas Hügle

Professor and Head of Rheumatology, University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV)

2mo

Thanks for sharing! I believe the bathroom will become the future health hub at home, with the mirror playing an important role. It could also be used for screening skin cancer or detecting ticks...

Susan Bratton

CEO & Founder at Savor Health | Managing and Preventing Chronic Disease Through Precision Nutrition Interventions, Cancer First

2mo

I doubt this will be adopted due to a) size, b) cost, c) privacy (leak of full body images vs A1c data not in same stratosphere). The quantified self folks may buy it but I doubt this ever makes it to the larger, not even “mass”, market.

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This is against the whole healthcare industry shift towards complete digitalisation. I would be surprised if this works out.

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