Smart mirror promises full-body health screening

The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025) in Las Vegas showcased some of the industry’s latest innovations, including a smart mirror that can gather health metrics and replace the need for doctor appointments.

OMNIA is a concept product developed by the medical technology firm Withings that acts as a central health hub for connected devices such as smart scales, blood pressure monitors, and sleep analyzers.

Withing’s concept product aims to provide an overview of a user’s health metrics by integrating third-party devices and monitoring applications on a single screen superimposed on a mirror — what it calls health screening.

“OMNIA illustrates a monumental step forward in health technology, embodying the power of interconnected health data to transform personal health,” says Withings CEO and founder Eric Careel.

Careel says that OMNIA has been in development for over 15 years.

While acting as a central health hub, OMNIA also aims to bridge the gap between personal health tracking and professional healthcare services.

By sharing electrocardiogram and Withings health data with certified cardiologists, users can receive detailed heart-health reviews within 24 hours.

OMNIA also provides insights into health metrics tailored to its users’ unique health profiles using personal inputs and AI technologies.

The central health hub monitors users’ daily heart rate, overnight heart rate, resting heart rate, blood pressure, and vascular age and provides irregular rhythm notifications.

It tracks users’ activity, such as steps, calories burned, VO2 max, workout and recovery heart rates, and nutritional information, such as pH, ketone trends, vitamin analysis, muscle-to-fat ratio, visceral fat ratio, and weight trends.

A user’s sleep quality can also be measured using apnea detection, tracking sleep interruptions, stages, and recovery.

However, having access to this technology is a double-edged sword.

While providing this information may be of enormous benefit, it also comes with tremendous responsibility.

Firms with access to this data stand at risk of having this data taken for ransom, stolen, or leaked.

South Africa’s average data breach cost of R49 million has placed the country 14th among countries hardest-hit by such attacks, according to Allianz’s cyber security report for 2024.