At CES 2026, where we presented our Best of CES 2026 awards, technology companies showcased their upcoming latest and greatest devices that have the potential to impact our lives. This was especially the case for health tech, where we spotted several trends that show us where the industry is headed — and, interestingly, one place where it intends to go is right into our toilets.
To give you an idea of the devices we may one day wear on our bodies and have inside our homes, these are all the wellness devices that stood out to me at the tech event.
Companies like Kohler and Throne have introduced toilet cameras that analyze your bowel movements and urine to gather information about your gut health and hydration. At CES, this closer look at your bathroom business continues with the Vivoo Smart Toilet. Yes, that’s the same brand that created the FlowPad.
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The Vivoo Smart Toilet is less of a toilet and more of a test that suctions onto your toilet. It collects a small sample of your urine to monitor your hydration and uploads this information into the Vivoo app. This is similar to Withings’ U-Scan Nutrio, but Vivoo’s device lasts for up to 1,000 tests, whereas the U-Scan can only perform 20+ tests per cartridge
An actual smart toilet at CES is the Vovo Smart Toilet, which features a built-in urine sensor that analyzes urine and displays the results on a monitor mounted on the bathroom wall. It also features a “Jindo the dog” option, developed with older adults in mind. If the smart toilet doesn’t get used for 8 to 10 hours, a registered family member will be alerted to perform a wellness check
While these devices are interesting and can provide potentially helpful information, they raise the question: How much tech is too much, especially now that it has made its way into our toilets?
The word “longevity” won’t be able to get its beauty rest anytime soon.
Health tech company NuraLogix’s new Longevity Mirror gave CES 2026 goers a moment to reflect on their health, as it tells you about how you’ll age with just a simple selfie. By analyzing your face’s blood-flow patterns, the mirror scores the following from zero to 100: your heart health, mental stress, cardiovascular disease risk, metabolic health and biological age, which represents how old your body is from a biological standpoint.
The Longevity Mirror wasn’t the only device that promises to give you a glimpse into your long-term health. Withings’ new Body Scan 2 smart scale measures over 60 biomarkers, including your heart and cellular health, and will alert you if anything appears abnormal. That way, you can make changes before these red flags progress into something more serious
On a skin-deep level, L’Oréal also unveiled its LED Face Mask to promote firmer skin with reduced signs of aging, as well as the Light Straight Plus Multi-Styler, which features infrared light to decrease hair damage. Perhaps with tools like these, the Longevity Mirror will find that years have been taken off your life
We’ve seen food-tracking and scanning apps like Yuka, Zoe Health and MyFitnessPal emerge and expand, gaining AI capabilities and providing us with a closer look at the impact of our food choices on our bodies. The rest of the industry is following suit.
In its Connect Plus app, Garmin now offers nutrition tracking, while Abbott’s new Libre Assist app feature employs AI to inform people with diabetes about how their meals may affect their glucose levels. There was even a preview of Amazfit’s in-development V1tal Food Camera, which sits on your table and watches what, when and how you eat. It then uploads the nutrition and lifestyle data it captured directly into the brand’s Zepp app, which already has a food logging feature.
For people with food allergies, an exciting product called Allergen Alert is currently in development and being trialed by professional chefs. It’s a mini lab that fits in your pocket, and it can tell you in minutes with just one food sample whether your food contains gluten or dairy. In the future, the company plans to include additional allergens
Whether you have diabetes, food allergies or simply want to learn more about your diet, there is now a bevy of apps and devices that can help — no nutrition label required
While women have been historically underrepresented in medical research, that wasn’t the case at CES 2026.
For people who menstruate, OhmBody was designed with neurostimulation technology to make period cramps less painful. It non-invasively attaches to the body as an earpiece and engages the trigeminal and vagus nerves, which have an impact on the menstrual cycle.
There was also the FlowPad. Created by Vivoo, a company that offers at-home health tests, the FlowPad is a menstrual pad that uses period blood to test for ovarian health, fertility and hormones. The latter can be especially helpful for those experiencing menopause or perimenopause. The test is located at the bottom of the pad, where it is scanned so that the results can be uploaded into the Vivoo app.
To support people going through perimenopause, the Peri wearable was also on display. To replace self-reporting, it can pick up on symptoms experienced by individuals transitioning into menopause. It sticks to the torso and can detect night sweats, anxiety, hot flashes and more, logging this information in an app where AI can provide analytics.
As more devices become available to support women’s health, here’s hoping that health-care providers will take note and take patients who menstruate more seriously.
Traditional fitness trackers often have their own screens that you can view to see your health statistics, and even smart rings require apps for logging what can’t be tracked from your finger. When the Whoop wristband was introduced, it was unique because it didn’t have a screen; however, an app is still necessary for logging symptoms, meals, and your mood. It also requires an annual subscription, similar to the Oura Ring.
That’s what makes the newly revealed Luna Band so interesting: It has no screen, no surprise subscription, and still tracks your health metrics with its sensors, but allows you to use your voice to provide context. To make this happen, the device has an AI engine called LifeOS, which was also designed to answer your health questions.
To hear about your health stats instead of checking an app, the Luna Band can display them through your earbuds or smartphone. It also works with apps like Apple Health and Google Fit.
Another hands-free device that doesn’t require manual adjustment is what sleep tech company Stareep calls the world’s first AI-powered SmartSleep ecosystem, in the form of a smart mattress and adjustable base. While you sleep, the mattress collects data similar to traditional sleep trackers, but automatically responds to it with sound, motion, height adjustments and environmental cues, so you can get the best sleep of your life without having to move a finger or check a screen.
From our laptops to our phones, TVs, tablets, smartwatches and fitness trackers, we’ve reached a point where there are too many screens vying for our attention (and potentially damaging our eye health). So a health tracker that requires none of that is a welcome sight.
CES 2026 has proven that just like AI, health tech aims to permeate every aspect of our lives. It’s on our wrists, has a place at our dining room tables, goes to bed with us at night and, now, is in our toilets. If you’re there, odds are health tech wants to be there, too.
While some of these devices have the capability to positively affect our lives, others leave us with questions about privacy and accuracy, and concerns about the potential to cause health anxiety and lead people to believe they no longer need to consult their doctor. Only time and our own testing will reveal which category these pieces of health tech fall into: unnecessary interloper or life-changing innovation.
