--- title: Salistick: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 description: Find out why Salistick is one of the best inventions of 2023 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T05:11:42.024Z og:title: Salistick: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:description: Find out why Salistick made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a9ab432b339741/698a41a6011682431b983937/best-inventions-2023-Salistick.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Salistick: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Salistick: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 twitter:description: Find out why Salistick made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a9ab432b339741/698a41a6011682431b983937/best-inventions-2023-Salistick.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # A Saliva Pregnancy Test Salistick by [Chris Stokel-Walker](https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/) ## Chris Stokel-Walker  Urine-based pregnancy tests date back[ more than 3,200 years](https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Pregnancy+Test+Timeline), but for some, they’re kind of gross. Biotech company Salignostics removes the ick factor. Its saliva-based pregnancy test, the Salistick, is a world-first, detecting the beta human chorionic gonadotropin hormone (a giveaway for conception) in 10 minutes, with 95% accuracy. “There is a huge amount of data in saliva,” says Guy Krief, co-founder, deputy CEO, and chief business development officer of Salignostics. Though still pending FDA approval, the Salistick was launched in the U.K. in the summer, selling around 20,000 units in the first two months. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/"},"headline":"A Saliva Pregnancy Test","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:11:42.024Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a9ab432b339741/698a41a6011682431b983937/best-inventions-2023-Salistick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Stokel-Walker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-stokel-walker/"}],"creator":"Chris Stokel-Walker","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a9ab432b339741/698a41a6011682431b983937/best-inventions-2023-Salistick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6326907/salistick/","name":"A Saliva Pregnancy Test"}}]}] ```