New medical devices that for the first time enable us to measure complex, molecular level signals like biochemical and then respond in real-time have the potential to transform healthcare and how it’s delivered.
Eventually, biochemical sensors will come in other form factors beyond wearables like smart toilets and be embedded more deeply and passively into daily life.
Each will generally start with treating severe diseases and move over time towards more mass market consumer uses as these devices only become cheaper, less invasive, more passively embedded into the backgrounds of our lives, and more sophisticated in their measurements, prognosis, and modulations.
Adding biochemical sensors to traditional electronic wearables and health devices will be like moving from continuous vitals measurements to continuous full-body concierge-doctor quality check ups. Eventually, they will be perennially scanning for and managing complex disease states like cancers, microbiome imbalance, or stress in the background of normal life.
Meanwhile, companies BCI companies could for instance prove out their technology for reading brain activity to analyze mental patterns and moods, use that as a way to offer therapy that understands your mental activity better than you do (at the level of neuronal firing), build the industry-leading dataset, and then use that data to create neuromodulatory offerings.