Tanita's body fat measurer doesn't require you to get up

Tanita's been known to mesh gadgetry with health before, but its latest creation really goes beyond the call. This body fat measuring system apparently enables patients to remain firmly glued to the bed / sofa / etc. rather than actually, you know, getting up and moving, when checking out just how out of shape they are. Truth be told, the device was designed to allow "bedridden or physically-handicapped people" to check up on their BMI without having to be uncomfortably repositioned, but it's still a device the lazy could love. Click on to the read link for lots more pictures -- if you can muster the will power, that is.

[Via TokyoMango]

[Kiwi616 @ Dec 7th 2007 12:03PM]

Doesn't look like she has much fat on her to begin with.

[Rjay @ Dec 7th 2007 12:46PM]

Yeah, this is just an excuse to see how voltron's belt would look on a hot model.

[teej @ Dec 7th 2007 2:03PM]

Yeah, Neil Patrick Harris would tap that.

[Kiwi616 @ Dec 7th 2007 2:06PM]

@teej

I would...but I doubt Neil would as he's openly gay. But maybe she'll switch him back :)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1554852,00.html

[teej @ Dec 7th 2007 2:11PM]

my point exactly.

[nathan.wong @ Dec 7th 2007 12:03PM]

Oh, PLEEEZE, like she needs to check her body fat. Why didn't they get a model that actually needed to be tested?

[Andrew @ Dec 7th 2007 12:14PM]

You're saying you'd be more pleased to see a fat chick in that photo?

[MosquitoControl @ Dec 7th 2007 12:40PM]

Athletes need it more than fatties.

[deedeedee @ Dec 7th 2007 12:57PM]

just to make you feel fat

[Kris @ Dec 7th 2007 12:05PM]

I'd scan it.

[nathan.wong @ Dec 7th 2007 12:07PM]

The machine looks like something out of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Didn't Crusher use one of those? So why is the model in the picture holding her breast, so it doesn't register as body fat?

[bungsana @ Dec 7th 2007 12:22PM]

she probably has her hand on her chest area so that the machine doesnt scan her arms/hands and only focuses on her midsection. she's look like an idiot if she had her arms dangling over the edge of the bed...

[Jonathan Keim @ Dec 7th 2007 12:08PM]

"Click on to the read link for lots more pictures -- if you can muster the will power, that is."

Sorry engadget, I need someone to invent something that does that for me

[Oracle @ Dec 7th 2007 12:08PM]

Is she lifting her bxxxx with both of her hands?

[Andrew @ Dec 7th 2007 12:13PM]

That's exactly what I was going to post.

[Oracle @ Dec 7th 2007 12:22PM]

Haha.

Maybe it's some kind of side effects they don't want to tell you.

[blackfeather @ Dec 7th 2007 2:15PM]

The damn machine is in the way - I cant see!

[whatphone @ Dec 7th 2007 12:16PM]

google translates it? haaa ha... has anyone read it and not just looked at the pics?! laughable. Machine translation sucks and it has since the 60's...

[grjohnston @ Dec 7th 2007 12:40PM]

Haha! Yeah! It says the body weighs 2.6 kg, and I totally thought they were talking about the model for a sec!

[Nubaeus @ Dec 7th 2007 12:17PM]

Do I see a bulge???

[Mattcastb @ Dec 7th 2007 12:23PM]

Nope. That's a sausage wallet. :)

[R @ Dec 7th 2007 1:50PM]

No, that's a mons pubis. After you've been with a woman, you'll learn to recognize it. It's quite nice.

[TRAFFICBLOWS @ Dec 8th 2007 12:37PM]

yeah man... R is def correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cleft.jpg

[nonamo @ Dec 7th 2007 12:19PM]

If they plan to release that in the USA I think it needs a larger diameter :P

[VayVay @ Dec 7th 2007 12:23PM]

Wow, There's some fantastically bad Engrish in the read link:

"Tanita Corporation President and CEO of谷田Daisuke, said at the presentation of a "20th century tobacco and tackle century, but the 21st century is the century of obesity and tackle," said the mast to measure the need to appeal. なお、本製品は業務用の製品となるが、一般家庭向けの展開については「今のところは考えていないが、出してみて要望が強くなれば考える」としている。 In addition, this product is for products and services, a home for the expansion of the "Right now it is not considered a request to try out strongly consider it," he said."

[Mike @ Dec 7th 2007 12:23PM]

Just for your information, BMI is a function of your height, weight, and "frame size". It has nothing to do with your body fat percentage, and is in fact an awful way of measuring how overweight or underweight you are. Body fat percentage is far superior.

Mike

[Mike @ Dec 7th 2007 12:28PM]

Why did you steal my nick?

Poor form Mike... poor form.

[Jason @ Dec 7th 2007 12:27PM]

Ohhh Me So Skinny!

[Rob @ Dec 7th 2007 12:38PM]

I hope they've planned into making an XXXL or bigger size. Considering how large some people in the States are, I don't think this unit is going to cut it. But, at that weight, what's the point. You're automatically considered, in the words spoken to Eric Cartman "a fat ass." So you won't need a machine to prove the obvious.

[ark_v2 @ Dec 7th 2007 12:44PM]

I can measure that with a better scale:
Hot!---------------------Urg
all the way to

[Richard Lai @ Dec 7th 2007 12:46PM]

Engadget should publish a magazine: EHM? Or EFHM?

[Trent @ Dec 7th 2007 12:50PM]

ok.. we need to reexamine tanita.. tanita is really a Tom if you catch my drift... look closely

[robotrock @ Dec 7th 2007 12:58PM]

What a poorly angled photo. I can only speculate how large her breasts are.

[TRAFFICBLOWS @ Dec 8th 2007 12:39PM]

they have a different angled shot on the read link...

http://kaden.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/static/image/2007/12/05/rr_2160s.jpg

[Chirag @ Dec 7th 2007 12:59PM]

I'd scan her myse....wait..// Is that a penis?

[rlynd3 @ Dec 7th 2007 1:47PM]

Who wears a pad in workout clothes? or he/she really is packn'

[Seung-Hwan @ Dec 7th 2007 2:10PM]

68 cm for waist???
That's 27 inches for her waist.

That's gotta be wrong.
I was thinking more like 24.

[Gonzalo @ Dec 7th 2007 3:17PM]

Tanita...I use to know a girl with that nickname.No relation at all?

[Ayle @ Dec 7th 2007 4:51PM]

Lol at the comments ^_^...

[Zaraden @ Dec 7th 2007 5:50PM]

I definitely see a bulge there, maybe the upper half is a female midget and the lower half is another midget thats a guy. Or maybe shes a robot. Or maybe this had been shooped.

[Adam @ Dec 7th 2007 5:55PM]

Is she wearing a sports cup?!

[nathan.wong @ Dec 7th 2007 6:15PM]

It's possible she didn't have an appointment with Mrs. Wax or Mrs. Shaver.

[Simon @ Dec 7th 2007 11:06PM]

wow, there are a lot of guy here who never ever saw a naked woman, and that in the time of internet porn ... truly amazing ...

anyway, i realy don't care about that machine, but more pictures of her would be highly appreciated. "Click on to the read link for lots more pictures" got my very interested just to disappoint totaly ...

[Koz @ Dec 8th 2007 1:46PM]

Choob!

[roneewong @ Dec 8th 2007 9:50PM]

if you are using that...you are already too fat

[Ben @ Dec 10th 2007 2:45PM]

*Jumps on random Japanese girl*

*Fat measuring scale goes up*

[rumblerjon @ Sep 1st 2008 9:10AM]

Patient: " Look doctor, i'm paralysed and can't move, i'm fat and i don't really care to i have to know exactly how fat i am?

Doctor: Yes, this machine was very expensive.