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We have our next guest here already. Hello.

Hi, Scott, how are you?

Fantastic yourself.

Great. Thank you so much for asking.

Go ahead and introduce yourself for me.

Sure. I'm Miray, the co-founder and CEO of Vivoo. And today we are launching our new product, Vivoo version 2.0.

All right, and tell me about Vivoo.

So Vivoo is a valid sap that guides users to a healthier lifestyle based on their body's needs. And it's a little bit like your Apple Watch, but instead of your arm or your wrist, it's for your urine. So we have a urine test that looks like this. What you do is urinate on this colorful area and take a picture with the Vivoo app. And instantly you'll be getting your results like your Hydration, pH, Ketones, Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Salt Consumption, and goes on. You can also connect your variables and get personalized recommendations. We're giving free sticks to everybody who visits our booth. So you're welcome.

Okay, all right. So I'm going to take a guess at how this works. Each of the little diamonds is a different test. And the result changes the color in different ways. And the photo is then being able to, with image processing, analyze what the result of the stick is.

Perfect. So each of the squares have chemical reagents that interact with urine. Let's say based on your calcium level, it has different levels of color changes, and our machine learning enhanced image processing algorithm can capture the color changes as accurately as laboratory tests. So you can take this term at home. This is a truly at home test. Just like the ones you have to collect your sample at home, send it to a lab and wait for a month. No, it's just two minutes.

Okay, that is super cool.

Thank you.

And I like the idea of being able to do it through a photo as opposed to having to like, do temporary pairing of the device every time because you know, there are other health devices, you know, disposable wearables, where you have to Bluetooth, pair them all the time and stuff like that. And that's you definitely don't want to do that with something that is urine-related.

Yeah, yeah. Like, what we try to do is make it as simple as possible. I'm a user myself. I use all the products out there, I have my aura ring, I have my watch, I have I did all the tests. What we try to do is simplify the process and as easy to understand as possible so consumers can get the best of the benefits of self-tracking. Yeah, we got great visibility in CES. So we're so happy we launched our product here.

Yeah, for sure. It seems like you're like, it's like, super core, like the place where your booth is. There's a lot of activity happening on the back set of your shot.

It's a cool booth. Yeah, my friends are pitching to people. We're testing obviously, it's like closing down slowly. I think we've been in the market since 2020 with version 1.0. But with this version, we added like calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, and variable integration. So we expanded the world of people.

Very cool. So I'm looking in the Twitch chat. And I see as a person with potassium issues, this would be pretty great to have.

Yeah, like, enjoy it. You can visit us on vivoo.io or you can also reach it, we sell on Amazon as well in the United States, Canada, and UK. So you can get

Okay, and what is the expected price? What will we expect to pay for these tests?

Yeah, like affordability is a really important issue for us. Like we wanted our product to be affordable. So our previous version starts at $2 a test. And this version starts at $5 a test. So it's the same price as a cup of coffee, I guess.

Okay, yeah, I just jumped on Amazon to look it up. And yeah, you've added a lot of tests in the second generation based entirely on how many little colors I'm seeing on the original strip.

Yeah, yeah, we added a lot. Let me show you actually, wait. So this is the previous version and this is a new version. So I can see like we added a lot of new metrics.

Yeah, for sure. That's fantastic. How did the company get started? Why is this something that you and your team wanted to tackle?

Great question. Sorry for that. Somebody is creating a buzz. I'm a bioengineer, and I'm a biohacker myself. I've been trying all the products out there, and what I was having trouble with, but like these variables, they're great. They're simple, but the data is pretty narrow. Your set heart rate, etc, sleep. That's it. And when you do at-home lab tests, you collect your sample, send it to a lab, they're so expensive, it takes so long to get the results. And once you get it, it's just some data points on the references, it doesn't tell you how you can improve it, what you should be doing next, etc. So I have worked with urine tests before in a hospital, the similar technology is actually practiced every day in all the laboratories for urinalysis. What they do is dip this stick into urine and put it into an optical reader. And by the time you started this company in 2017, cell phone cameras were super, getting super advanced. So we wanted to combine these two technologies and make it as English as possible. So people can understand their results. Like rather than specific gravity, your hydration score, like rather than ascorbic, because it's your vitamin C levels, and it comes with personalized recommendations, so you can actually improve your metrics. And you can see week to week changes.

Very cool. It's a fascinating product. And I'm making the assumption that these are one-time test strips.

Yes, they are. Yeah, you pee, and you scan, then you throw it off. But like this is for example for a monthly pack. It comes with four tests, one for each week.

Okay. Understood. Yeah, that, obviously, that's not something that you would want to reuse really. Even if it was possible.

Some customers say?

No.

Don't. Throw it. Dispose of it please after use. Yeah.

Especially since you can literally just if you wanted to keep the data separate from the app, you can just take a picture of the thing.

Yeah, that's correct. Your data will be here, forever. For free. By the way, you can track all your progress for each metric we launched.

Okay, and you said that it can connect to others, to other health things and track data from there, too.

That's another update made for version 2.0. And it is super exciting because now it grabs my sleep data from Apple, it grabs my magnesium and hydration from Vivoo. And it gives me a combined sleep plan for me. So it's much more advanced compared to the products out there. Like you know, they'll only show you, hey, time in bed, time asleep. That's it, like now with Vivoo, you can actually have insight. You can receive insights to improve those metrics. Yeah.

That is super cool. Did you say that version 2.0 is on the market? Or is it coming soon?

Yes, version 2.0 is in the market on our website. And in Amazon, we have our version 1.0, but in two weeks, we will switch that too.

Got it. Very cool. So if you want one now, go over to the website.

Vivoo.io

Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. Well, thank you so much for talking to me about this today. Medical technology enhancements for consumers have been a huge part of CES the last couple of years and this is a really easy and cool part of the space.

Thank you for having me. Thank you so much, Scott.

Absolutely. And enjoy the last little bit of the show. Thank you.

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