Oh sure, we Americans love our fast food. And we love our technology. But do we really love the latter? Withings has just announced that the world's first WiFi-enabled bathroom scale has made its way into the States after a few months abroad, and we have to say, this could change everything. When pouncing upon it, the scale automatically records the user's body weight, lean / fat mass and calculated body mass index (BMI) to his or her secure webpage, and if you're more the iPhone type, it can beam data to a Withings iPhone app as well. It's available now for $159, but you can certainly wait 'til your latest diet has had some sort of effect before bringing one home. A delightful demonstration video is waiting for you just past the break.
Michael, I'm 5'11" and about 160 pounds/75ish kilos, whichever you prefer, and a Yank. So no, it's not redundant.
Just like I know that there are plenty of pleasant people in every country, so assuming you're a Briton, I know it wouldn't be redundant to call you an asshole Briton.
It has "automatic user recognition". So, how well does it work on identical twins??? How about two siblings who are similar in weight and body fat percentage?
Maybe a tiny needle sticks your big toe and they run a DNA test to verify the user...
If there isn't some way to manually tell it who you are, it's useless.
Is there a way to set it so that multiple people can use it? I wouldn't want my underweight or overweight friend getting on their and messing up my data
Y'know... it's a strange brand of laziness when you are SO lazy that you cannot write down your weight fluctuations and instead need to send the results via WiFi. Not that I haven't wished for some of these, but if you're going to go to the effort of fighting to maintain a desired weight .... Go through the effort of opening Google Spreadsheets and typing in the numbers.
Yeah, because typing burns so many calories. If that were the case, I would be anorexic. I guess your one of those people who believe nothing is worth it unless it is hard to do. What about the awesome graphs to show progress? Are you going to draw those yourself?
Chris, I'm sure that you can find free graphing software that will accept a .csv file and plot out the points. Heck, you can probably find freeware specifically for graphing weight loss.
Honestly, if I were concerned with weight gain I'd much prefer to get a $20 scale from the pharmacy and plot my weight daily on regular old analog paper (if you can't figure out how to create a plot...well, it's a lot easier than losing weight from what I hear, so maybe you should learn the easy stuff first), and spend the remaining $139 on a gym membership, or lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. It's an expensive scale is all I'm saying.
I thought of this about 2 years ago and was hoping someone would make something like this. I think this is awesome. I just hope that the software that comes with it is comprehensive. I.e. it gives you options to track your diet and exercise and show you what things you're doing right and wrong.
Has anyone made an app for the iphone yet to turn it into your own personal scale? Cut out the damn middle man and just stand on your iphone...get your weight..voila!!
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posted Oct 1st 2009 10:37AM
overweight Yanks? Isn't that redundant?
If this was for America....it should be in pounds not kilograms.
As corporations export our jobs out of the country and our quality of living decreases, rest assured, Yanks will get thinner.
We've already lost inches from our pockets.
Why do Brits call American Yanks? Still Yanks is better than queer or douche that we call English people.
@PikaPika
You can't be serious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
@PikaPika
Well its better than an absolute ignorant douche that finds it so hard to see the difference between british and english you stupid cock.
@PikaPika
I call them septics but that's just me:
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/sceptic_tank
and you guys are OK really ... in fact you have the best customer service I've ever experienced (in any country)
Can it twitter my weight to my followers?..pleeeeeeease!
What I don't get is, why sell a weight-loss product in America at all?
You could lose 100 pounds just by ordering it from Britain.
@kiwi
Leave it in KG, Americans will love it. They will think they are thinner right off the bat.
Michael, I'm 5'11" and about 160 pounds/75ish kilos, whichever you prefer, and a Yank. So no, it's not redundant.
Just like I know that there are plenty of pleasant people in every country, so assuming you're a Briton, I know it wouldn't be redundant to call you an asshole Briton.
Generalization.
The ignorant man's insult.
My more pressing concern is when air started weighing 54.7 pounds
@robpetrin: more than that - That's 57.5 KG :)
er... *54.7 KG
You're right, Brits ARE douche bags...
Take Kris120890 for example.
Get back to sleeping with your goat, you pale-skinned, fugly, depressing limey.
That is going to cause a stir mr Murph. Even if I did laugh.
I'm guessing that most people reading these blogs couldn't care less about their weight. Sorry if that offends you.
And you would be right. For once you troll.
This coming from the overweight virgin who spends his weekends arduously defending his iPhone against all pending technological threads.
Shhuuuuu... it's okay, I'm not fat.
Brazell, he has fat sausage fingers, he cannot use iPhone, he wants to but cannot
handy for those whose bellies obscure the display.
Does it say GET OFF! GET OFF OF ME! when the load limit is reached?
I hope so.
I am sluggishly backing away now.......
That's pretty awesome. I've been doing the same thing, but manually.
I think I'll stick with using my $40 Tanita and typing in the numbers myself, though. I'm cheap like that.
kudos to you for working on a lean BMI...just think of all the calories you are burning with the extra finger movement. :-)
BMI is 19th Century, literally. The only reason people use it is because they cannot agree on something else.
You can be 3% body fat and "morbidly obese" by BMI standards if you have enough muscle.
It has "automatic user recognition". So, how well does it work on identical twins??? How about two siblings who are similar in weight and body fat percentage?
Maybe a tiny needle sticks your big toe and they run a DNA test to verify the user...
If there isn't some way to manually tell it who you are, it's useless.
Pray tell, to what percentage of people would this apply? Do you have identical siblings who are in desperate need of a wifi scale?
Is there a way to set it so that multiple people can use it? I wouldn't want my underweight or overweight friend getting on their and messing up my data
Yes, It said in the video automatic user identification. Must use some type of Bio ID from its readings.
OK, this might be only thing that needs Twitter integration. Ever.
Y'know... it's a strange brand of laziness when you are SO lazy that you cannot write down your weight fluctuations and instead need to send the results via WiFi. Not that I haven't wished for some of these, but if you're going to go to the effort of fighting to maintain a desired weight .... Go through the effort of opening Google Spreadsheets and typing in the numbers.
Yeah, because typing burns so many calories. If that were the case, I would be anorexic. I guess your one of those people who believe nothing is worth it unless it is hard to do. What about the awesome graphs to show progress? Are you going to draw those yourself?
That's EXACTLY what I would do........... and I'd wear ankle weights while doing it!
Chris, I'm sure that you can find free graphing software that will accept a .csv file and plot out the points. Heck, you can probably find freeware specifically for graphing weight loss.
Honestly, if I were concerned with weight gain I'd much prefer to get a $20 scale from the pharmacy and plot my weight daily on regular old analog paper (if you can't figure out how to create a plot...well, it's a lot easier than losing weight from what I hear, so maybe you should learn the easy stuff first), and spend the remaining $139 on a gym membership, or lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. It's an expensive scale is all I'm saying.
Now it just needs twitter integration. X has gained 40 LB.
Why does it read more than yesterday? Why do I have a headache? Where'd all my beer go? What happened last night?
So now people can hack my scale as well? That's frightening.
yo momz so phat she gave this the blue screen of death
Hopefully it won't be running window, I don't want my scale crashing every 5 min :P
The only overweight Yanks are Sabathia and Joba.
I just want to say... This is what a Wii Fit does... and is cheaper (if you already own a Wii( and it's done locally.
Wii Fit doesn't measure body fat percentage or post anything online.
I thought of this about 2 years ago and was hoping someone would make something like this. I think this is awesome. I just hope that the software that comes with it is comprehensive. I.e. it gives you options to track your diet and exercise and show you what things you're doing right and wrong.
What's this in my hand Darren? *Gasp* A TOOTHBRUSH?! Ye Gods... Limey Kryptonite!
For the truly lazy who can't step up three inches and jot the results down on paper with a pen. "Meh" technology.
Has anyone made an app for the iphone yet to turn it into your own personal scale? Cut out the damn middle man and just stand on your iphone...get your weight..voila!!