He went into a public toilet. He came out with a health check

Would you pay $2.75 for a health check whenever you feel like it? That was the spontaneous experience enjoyed by Shanghai resident Chris Petersen-Clausen when he visited a public restroom in a shopping center. He positioned himself at a urinal.

The urinal had a screen offering a urine test right there. As he on TwitterX: "I know what you're thinking: A Chinese company -- what about privacy? Truth be told -- I am middle-aged and haven't had a health check in a while. I'm more worried about knowing everything is OK and the convenience is unbeatable.



I'm finally actually doing what I know I should." The process sounds blessedly simple. You pay your 19.

90 Yuan (about $2.75) via , offer up some personal details and -- remarkably soon -- get details of your chemical innards, such as Vitamin C and nitrite levels. Said Petersen-Clausen: "Before I even made it down the escalator, I had my results.

" The results showed he lacked calcium, but was otherwise a rather healthy human being. Petersen-Clausen is a r, a Werner Herzog in the making. He once traveled with former NBA great Dennis Rodman to North Korea and took some famous pictures.

And, full disclaimer here, he used to work for me as an art director in New York. So I contacted him to ask more about the whole experience. "I did not know about these urinals.

I just stumbled over them in a shopping mall and got curious," he told me. Who, though, might make the most use of this service? "I feel the target audience is the chainsmoking f.