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Claiming to be the world’s first 3D body scanner for the home, Naked Labs offers a sensor-

embedded mirror unit and an accompanying rotating scale. Users stand on the scale and slowly turn

360° as the scanner generates aggregate data about weight and body composition. A dedicated app

displays the metrics visually and numerically, granting users the sort of granular detail on diet and

exercise – and its impact on their physiognomy – that was until now the preserve of medical facili-

ties and an increasing number of high-end fitness centres. It is the latter from which the product

takes its design cues, following the fitness industry's taste for soft modernism, a focus on slim

profiles, strong but rounded silhouettes and monotone colours.

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systems have an adoption rate of 11 per cent

• shows the market is still modest. But as
  the population grows more familiar with hav-
  ing healthcare delivered in domestic rather
  than clinical environments, the percentage
  is expected to rise. In terms of aesthetics,
  domestic and clinical settings are very differ-
  ent: one comfortable and familiar, the other
  austere and mechanical. We look at three
  approaches adopted by product designers
  to bridge this divide. – PM

WELLBEING – An ageing population means

that consumers are living longer and, conse-

quently, are likely to have at least one chronic

disease. It’s a care-provision crisis that’s hit-

ting many major economies. Along with the

wellness industry’s powering interest in pre-

ventative health solutions, old age is demand-

ing more and better healthcare devices for

use at home.

A 2017 Gartner survey of US, UK and

Australian households – which found that

home health- and wellness-management

The advent of IN-HOME HEALTHCARE

represents a new aesthetic challenge

for today’s product designer

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