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Visualising progress with the Withings WiFi Body Scale
- 15/08/2012
The Withings scale gives you the big picture of your health
Withings, 2012 ©Scope
People have never been more keen to lose weight, and technology is offering new means to do it. The Withings WiFi Body Scale logs and sends every measurement to the internet automatically. By doing so, it makes the best of a dispiriting experience and provides a powerful new positive peer pressure incentive to keep in shape.
Keeping track of your weight used to take planning and effort. The Withings WiFi Body Scale allows users to effortlessly view detailed statistics and track their weight over time. A frontrunner in the race to bring internet connectivity to everyday objects, it shows us how the smart house of the future will help us manage our lives. -
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