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No, but I, I, I use a CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea.
And this is something that you have to, you know, go through a torturous night in a sleep study to try to get insurance coverage for the CPAP system and, and the correct pressure assignment and so on.
And I've long been a proponent of, hey, the modern BiPAP systems can measure you just by using it.
You don't have to go through a sleep study.
And it's only a few hundred dollars rather than $10,000 for a sleep study to buy a CPAP and use it.
And then you read out on the data that it says, oh, you had 16 hypopnea events last night.
that we correct it automatically because we're a smart CPAP system.
Anyway, so this is all about the advances in technology and supported by AI to do real-time measurement and aggregate the measurements across the very large populations.
So I want to bring our attention to one of the major announcements in the health sector at CES, and that is a device called the Withings Body Scan 2.
It looks like a bathroom scale, but it's more than a bathroom scale.
It's a comprehensive health monitoring platform.
It measures over 60 biomarkers about cardiovascular function, cellular health, and metabolic efficiency.
That was previously only available in a clinical setting.
Like you'd have to go into a study to have all of these biomarkers measured.
And it adds AI personalization using the collective network of the Withings ecosystem eventually, where you would have billions of measurements from hundreds of thousands or millions of users of the system.
And it would establish your individual physiological baseline personally, but it would also compare that to all of the others that it's collecting so that you could see deviations, not only in your own baseline, but deviations from the expected, you know, measurements that would come from other people of similar, you know, age and health levels and so on.
It's medical-grade technology, and it's going to cost around, I think, $600.