Switle Body Lets You Bathe While in Bed

(Credit: SwitleBody)

The Switle Body makes it possible to bathe without needing to leave the bed. Designed as an elder care device but applicable to any caregiving situation in which a person struggles with movement, the Switle Body features a built-in wet suction attachment that works without getting the bedsheets wet or dirty.

On display at CES 2025 after making its debut in Japan last year, the Switle Body machine looks like a canister vacuum at a glance, but is relatively lightweight at just over 12 pounds. It has built-in tanks for clean water, dirty water, and soap. The nozzle turns on and begins spraying with just a push of a button, and the suction mechanism pulls in the dirty water before it can drip.

In action, using the Switle Body looks a bit like vacuuming, only you’re sweeping the nozzle over a person instead of your floor or furniture. In a demo video, it did look like some drops still escaped the suction of the nozzle, but this could be one element that the company is still refining.

According to the startup behind the Switle Body, the machine only needs to use one liter of tap water per wash. The modular tanks should make it easy to fill up the water or soap and empty the dirty water. The machine also controls the temperature, so that the nozzle sprays hot but comfortable water between 100 and 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

In all, the Switle Body looks easy for caregivers to carry, use, and maintain. If it can indeed get a person clean while eliminating spills, it could add a lot of convenience to an elder care routine. Pricing and availability details for the Switle Body have not yet been announced.

We’ve seen lots of other cool, unique gadgets at CES that could add convenience to everyday life. Check out the rest of our favorites and stay tuned for more as we explore the show floor.

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Andrew Gebhart

Senior Writer, Smart Home and Wearables

My Experience

I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart home and wearable devices. I’ve been reporting on tech professionally for nearly a decade and have been obsessing about it for much longer than that. Prior to joining PCMag, I made educational videos for an electronics store called Abt Electronics in Illinois, and before that, I spent eight years covering the smart home market for CNET.

I foster many flavors of nerdom in my personal life. I’m an avid board gamer and video gamer. I love fantasy football, which I view as a combination of role-playing games and sports. Plus, I can talk to you about craft beer for hours and am on a personal quest to have a flight of beer at each microbrewery in my home city of Chicago.

The Technology I Use

I tend to like mixing flavors from various companies. My personal computer is an Apple MacBook Pro. My phone is a Google Pixel 7a. On my wrists are an ever-rotating lineup of the latest smartwatches, and I sometimes wear two at once for testing and extra style. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is a mainstay on my wrist because I use it as a control for evaluating the accuracy of other devices' fitness metrics.

I spend plenty of time in front of my entertainment center, which features a 55-inch LG OLED TV, a Yamaha soundbar, a Nintendo Switch, and a PS5. (I insisted on getting the PS5 with the disc slot when they were hard to come by and haven’t used the feature in more than a year.) I thought I’d have given in to temptation and snagged an Xbox to play Starfield by now, but Baldur’s Gate 3 saved me money by distracting me long enough for the Starfield hype to blow past.

I have two cats and sneeze plenty, so I have a Shark Air Purifier to help me fight back against their dastardly, shedding ways.

I use my aforementioned Pixel 7a and a Nest Hub for Google Assistant, an iPhone 16e and AirPods to talk to Siri, and an Amazon Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 15 for Alexa, so I’m not in danger of losing touch with any of the big three digital assistants.

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