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Person looking at Whoop health tracking data on a phone — A big part of my job is spending several hours per week staring at charts of my data.

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The other day I was staring into my toilet. Not because I was hungover, stricken with food poisoning, or in the midst of a deep clean. No, I was installing a gadget that I affectionately call the Pee Shell. The actual name is the Withings U-Scan, a $380 at-home urinalysis test with a removable cartridge that either measures your nutr …

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