Temple / dwg 04 / enclosure

2400 overall
1470 shell
rev C

Do not scale . mm

The Temple pod: a slatted timber cylinder on a dark stone plinth, its curved door slid open on a warm oak interior with a lit ceiling disc, a recessed control panel and a view through to water at dusk.

Temple Pod

Twelve minutes. One body. Every system.

A wearable is very good at trends and very bad at absolutes. It has never known your bone density, your arterial stiffness, your retina, or your grip strength. The pod is the opposite instrument.

One session

Twelve minutes of measurement.

About half an hour in the building. Ten of those minutes are spent standing still while your skin reaches the same temperature it reached last time, because a thermal image taken before that is a picture of the room. What follows is one session, told three ways at once.

  1. 01

    The door closes

    Measured

    Identity, consent for the day, the delta on your symptoms and medications since the last visit.

    The room

    The sound floor drops. The light comes up warm and stays there.

    What it is like

    The room goes quiet a while before you do. That gap is the point of it.

  2. 02

    Ten minutes of nothing

    Measured

    Thermal equilibration, an air quality baseline, ambient calibration. Nothing about you yet — this is the instrument settling.

    The room

    A warm floor plate, dry radiant infrared, a light paced to a breath. Scent from a metered diffuser.

    What it is like

    You stand in a standardised garment and do nothing at all, which is harder than it sounds and is the reason the numbers afterwards mean anything.

  3. 03

    Light

    Measured

    A 3D body scan, total body photography, cross-polarised and UV skin imaging, posture and anthropometry.

    The room

    The light steps through its own spectrum, one band at a time.

    What it is like

    Ninety seconds standing still with your arms away from your sides.

  4. 04

    Dark

    Measured

    Pupillometry, retinal fundus, OCT, eye tracking. Then the plate: segmental bioimpedance, ECG limb leads, bilateral blood pressure and pulse wave velocity, balance and sway, weight, plantar pressure, bone ultrasound at the heel.

    The room

    The light goes out entirely. The plate is cool underfoot.

    What it is like

    Your eyes take a minute to give up on seeing. The optics wait for that.

  5. 05

    Cold air, then heat

    Measured

    Full body thermography, the brown fat window, limb symmetry.

    The room

    Cold vortex air and chilled conductive surfaces, then dry radiant heat. No steam, no immersion, no atomised water.

    What it is like

    The cold arrives as air rather than water, which is a different thing to stand in.

  6. 06

    Effort, and the door opens

    Measured

    Spirometry, exhaled CO, FeNO, breath acetone and hydrogen, a voice script. Grip strength both hands, a countermovement jump or sit to stand power, reaction time, NIRS occlusion recovery.

    The room

    The light comes back up to where it started.

    What it is like

    You push once, hard, at the very end — so it cannot contaminate anything measured before it.

The same room, the same order, the same conditions, every time. Time since waking, since the last meal, since caffeine, since training; cycle day, medications, alcohol, hydration, room temperature, the garment, the pod’s own QC status — all logged. A delta computed across two sessions under different conditions is flagged, never silently reported. That is what turns a two percent change into a signal instead of noise, and it is the one thing a wrist strap can never do.

What it reads

190metrics from one session, drawn from a catalogue of 349

Nineteen systems, read in one sitting. A wrist reaches perhaps seven of them, continuously and at low resolution. The pod reaches all nineteen, once, at high resolution, under conditions it controls.

  • 23Skin and surfaceCumulative photodamage mapSolar lentigines count and areaWrinkle depth, count, orientation
  • 10Hair, scalp and nailsHair density and diameterFollicular miniaturisation indexPattern staging
  • 19Body composition and morphologyWeight and weight variabilityWaist, hip, waist to height ratioVisceral fat
  • 22Musculoskeletal, posture and movementGrip strength, both handsRate of force developmentCountermovement jump power and asymmetry
  • 25Cardiovascular and vascularBlood pressure, bilateralCentral aortic pressureAugmentation index
  • 21Respiratory and breathSpirometry: FEV1, FVC, ratio, PEFSlow vital capacityBronchodilator responsiveness
  • 17Metabolic and energeticResting metabolic rateRespiratory exchange ratioMetabolic flexibility index
  • 9ThermalCore body temperatureFull body thermal mapThermal symmetry index
  • 23Oral, dental and gutTooth shade, objectiveExtrinsic staining indexPlaque index
  • 23Neurological and autonomicSudomotor functionVibration perception thresholdMonofilament protective sensation
  • 18Cognitive, mood and behaviourPsychomotor vigilance taskSimple and choice reaction timeProcessing speed and working memory
  • 14Sensory: hearing, smell, tastePure tone audiometryExtended high frequency audiometrySpeech in noise testing
  • 25OphthalmicVisual acuity, distance and nearContrast sensitivityColour vision
  • 24Endocrine and hormonalSalivary cortisolCortisol awakening responseDiurnal cortisol slope
  • 24Blood chemistryLipids, standardLipids, causalNutritional adequacy
  • 17Omics and molecular agingFirst generation methylation clocksSecond generation clocksDunedinPACE, pace of aging
  • 13Reproductive and sexual healthCycle phase confirmation, objectiveOvulation confirmationOvarian reserve
  • 14Environmental exposure and toxicologyHeavy metalsPFAS panelPhthalates and bisphenols
  • 8Immune and infection statusInflammation compositeImmune ageVaccine titres

The order, and why it cannot change

Eleven phases.

Saliva comes first, before any stressor. Resting measures come before any effort. Thermography needs ten to fifteen minutes of equilibration. The optics need dark adaptation. Anything requiring effort goes last so it cannot contaminate what came before.

  1. 01Check inIdentity, consent for the day, symptom and medication delta, questionnaires45 sDressed
  2. 02EquilibrateThermal equilibration, air quality baseline, ambient calibration, questionnaires10 minStandardised garment or underwear, in the antechamber
  3. 03Optics, light3D body scan, total body photography, cross-polarised and UV skin imaging, posture, anthropometry90 sStanding, arms abducted
  4. 04Optics, darkPupillometry, retinal fundus, OCT, eye tracking, visual acuity and contrast90 sSeated, chin rest
  5. 05Contact plateSegmental bioimpedance, ECG limb leads, sudomotor conductance, bilateral blood pressure and pulse wave velocity, balance and sway, weight, plantar pressure, heel bone ultrasound120 sStanding on plate, hands on grips
  6. 06Skin probesSkin AGE autofluorescence, carotenoid Raman, hydration, elasticity, barrier function, nailfold capillaroscopy60 sSeated
  7. 07ThermalFull body thermography, supraclavicular brown fat window, limb symmetry45 sStanding, still
  8. 08Breath and voiceSpirometry, exhaled CO, FeNO, breath acetone and hydrogen, voice biomarkers, cough120 sSeated, mouthpiece
  9. 09EffortGrip strength both hands, countermovement jump or sit to stand power, reaction time, NIRS occlusion recovery90 sStanding
  10. 10SamplesSaliva tube, capillary blood cartridge, urine cup, buccal swab, take-home kits120 sSeated
  11. 11DebriefDelta report, escalations, next booking60 sDressed

The report

The headline is always what changed.

An absolute number tells you where you sit against a population you are not. A delta tells you what your own body did since the last time it stood in the same room under the same conditions. The second is the one worth reading, and it is the one the pod is built to produce.

Plainly

What it is not.

  • It is not a diagnosis, and it does not replace a doctor. It is a wellness instrument, and where an edge of it is medical, that edge is handled as such.
  • A finding that needs a clinician gets a named escalation path. That is a requirement of the product, not a courtesy added later.
  • A number that no one can act on is decoration. Every metric on the list exists because there is something to do about it.

Waitlist

There is no pod near you yet.

It sits in someone else’s building — a gym, a clinic, a studio, a hotel — and one Temple account carries across every one of them. Leave an address and we will write when there is a pod near you, and not for any other reason.