OK, so maybe not your pants, but soon you’ll be able to pee on your phone. At least that’s the UK’s plan to cut the rate of STD infection among the young population. Doctors and tech experts are developing ‘phone kits’ – small devices, similar to a home pregnancy test – that will be able to diagnose you quickly and privately if you believe you may have been in contact with an STD.
The self-testing device is aimed at young, tech-savvy people, who also have a growing infection rate among the UK population for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Public health experts are concerned that it is this group, in particular, that are too embarrassed to visit a doctor or clinic to regularly test for STIs. Sexual health experts hope this new technology will reduce the growing number of STIs, which have increased for the last decade and reached a record 482,696 last year. Two-thirds of women reporting a new STI were under 25, as were more than half of men. 
