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Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black



Product Description

Monitor your body weight like never before with the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale, a digital wireless body fat monitor. This bathroom scale uses a Wi-Fi connection to sync your weight, BMI, and body fat readings with your personal health dashboard. See graphs, track your progress, and motivate yourself to maintain a healthy weight. Access Your Health Data Online or on Your Smartphone: The Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale is packed with technology, yet it's simple to use. Just step on the scale and it will automatically sync your weight, BMI, and body fat readings with a personal health dashboard available on your smartphone and also directly on Withings.com. Easily monitor the evolution of your weight thanks to a rich, relevant view of all your weight data collected by the scale, with no time limitation and in total confidentiality. Free iPhone, iPad and Android applications are available on the Apple App Store and Android Market for you to turn your smartphone into your very own fitness coach, always available in your pocket. Stylish, Accurate Healthcare Tool: Powered by four 1.5-volt AAA alkaline batteries (included), this high-tech scale's black-and-steel design makes it an attractive addition to any décor. And this scale is just as accurate as it is good looking--it features four sensors and measures in graduations of 0.2 pounds, accepting a maximum weight of 396 pounds. The Withings scale can measure precisely your muscle mass and fat mass so you can see the real impact of your efforts. The accuracy of its measurements makes it the ideal tool to monitor your health and fitness. Scale Offers Creative Ways to Keep Fit:

Amazon.com Product Description

Monitor your body weight like never before with the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale, a digital wireless body fat monitor. This bathroom scale uses a Wi-Fi connection to sync your weight, BMI, and body fat readings with your personal health dashboard. See graphs, track your progress, and motivate yourself to maintain a healthy weight.

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WiFi Body Scale - Digital Wireless Bathroom Body Fat Monitor
At a Glance:
  • Records weight, fat mass, lean mass, and BMI
  • Monitor your data from your iPhone, iPad, or Android device
  • Private, password-secured web dashboard
  • Accurate graduation of 0.2 pounds; maximum weight of 396 pounds
  • Multi-user monitoring allows up to eight users
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Available in either black or white.
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Access Your Health Data Online or on Your Smartphone

The Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale is packed with technology, yet it's simple to use. Just step on the scale and it will automatically sync your weight, BMI, and body fat readings with a personal health dashboard available on your smartphone or directly on Withings.com. Easily monitor the evolution of your weight thanks to a rich, relevant view of all your weight data collected by the scale, with no time limitation and in total confidentiality. The Withings application is available free of charge for your iPhone, iPad or Android device.

Withings WiFi Body Scale - Digital Wireless Bathroom Body Fat Monitor (WBS01) Product Shot
Stylish, Accurate Healthcare Tool

Powered by four 1.5-volt AAA alkaline batteries (included), this high-tech scale's black-and-steel design makes it an attractive addition to any décor. And this scale is just as accurate as it is good looking--it features four sensors and measures in graduations of 0.2 pounds, accepting a maximum weight of 396 pounds. The Withings scale can measure precisely your muscle mass and fat mass so you can see the real impact of your efforts. The accuracy of its measurements makes it the ideal tool to monitor your health and fitness. It comes in a black or white finish.

Scale Offers Creative Ways to Keep Fit

Take advantage of the Withings scale's many options to help you stay healthy. Set your goals and get a weekly progress report by email. Share your progress with friends on your blog, Facebook account, or Twitter account (only if you want to). You can even generate and print graphs showing your growth, weight, height, and BMI for your medical records. If you work with coaches or nutritionists, they can monitor your progress directly on their computers as well.

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The scale automatically recognizes up to eight different users, so your entire family can use it. Go beyond just the basics to evaluate your family's diet with Withings' nutrition partners and create your own sports program with any of the many Withings partners.

What's in the Box

Withings WiFi scale, four 1.5-volt AAA alkaline batteries, four carpet feet, tape measure, and installation guide.

SPECIFICATIONS
Data Collection
  • Instant weigh-in by getting on the scale
  • Automatically turns on and off
Body Analysis
  • ITO Invisible electrodes
  • Fat mass
  • Lean mass
  • Body mass index (BMI)
Mobile Applications
  • iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
  • Android
Online Dashboard
  • Private Web site secured by password
  • Monitor weight fluctuations and fat mass graph
  • Comparison to reference values dictated by doctors
  • Ability to set objectives
Data Sharing
  • Data can be set to private or shared with the other users of the scale
  • Ability to sync your data with over 40 third-party health and fitness applications
Display
  • Big graphical screen (2.4" x 1.6")
  • White, high-contrast lighting
Connectivity
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g
  • Very low power consumption
  • WEP/WPA/WPA2-personal security
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT THE WITHINGS SCALE
NYTimes.com

"By amassing a continual flow of data, you'll be able to monitor your progress in maintaining, or achieving, a healthy life style.

USA Today

"The Wi-Fi body scale from Withings can keep dieters connected"

CBS, The Doctors,

"Pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears recommends the Withings WiFi Body Scale, which Tweets your weight when you step on it!"

MSN Tech & Gadgets

"Its dark metallic case and digital display make it look more like a distant cousin to the new Apple iPad than an object that should sit prominently on the floor beside the toilet."

Engadget

"More often the object of dread than fascination, the humble bathroom scale has been given a makeover by Withings..."


  • High-tech, user-friendly body-scale that measures the weight, fat mass, and BMI of up to 8 users
  • Connects to the Internet to graph weight charts you access anytime from your mobile device or web browser
  • Free iPhone, iPad and Android Applications
  • Integrated with over 40 e-health & e-fitness services such as Runkeeper or Weightbot
  • Graduation 0.2 lbs (0.1 kg) - 4 sensors, maximum weight 396 lbs (180 kg)
  • Body analysis (fat mass, lean mass and bmi)
  • Easy weight and fat mass monitoring on a private website secured by a password
  • Free iphone application to monitor your weight and fat mass
  • Personnalized multi-user monitoring thanks to an automatic user recognition (up to 8 users)


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Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black Reviews


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249 of 255 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A scale that keeps getting better and better, October 21, 2009
This review is from: Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black (Health and Beauty)
The Withings Wi-Fi scale is a fascinating step forward in the use of Wi-Fi to share information for the consumer's benefit.

I purchased my scale from the Withings web site but it was shipped from their U.S. Amazon store. It appears to be one of the first scales to ship within the US as I received it in early October 2009.

After the scale is configured for your Wi-Fi network, and the account on the server is set up, the process of weighing goes like this: Step on the scale. The scale will fluctuate for a moment while adjusting to your weight. After a few moments, the scale should accept a weight, and then display a bar moving across the display from left to right as the data is uploaded to the server. When the bar display is complete, the scale then displays your Body Fat % and then displays your BMI. If the scale has a problem thinking that the person on the scale is not centered, there will appear an arrow in one of the corners where it believes there is too... Read more
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67 of 72 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great techy scale, February 3, 2010
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This review is from: Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black (Health and Beauty)
The scale itself looks nice, works fast and was easy to setup.

The only thing I would warn people about is that you do have to connect the scale via a provided USB cable to your computer to set it up. The port to connect the USB cable to the scale is located in the battery compartment, so after you put the batteries in don't put the cover back on. You'll just be taking it right back off again to connect the scale to your computer. Once the batteries are installed you'll go the Withings website to make an account, then you will connect the scale via USB to your pc to connect it to your network and the account you just created. I would also suggest reading the FAQ on the website once the scale is setup, it provides good information about the display and messages you may get on it.

I had no problem connecting the scale to my secure wireless network, which also uses mac filtering. I had no need to change any of my security settings to get the scale connected.
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224 of 268 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate and buggy, June 16, 2010
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This review is from: Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black (Health and Beauty)
So,

I was very excited to pick up this scale. The convenience of the wifi networking to auto update my data to their server and subsequently view on the iphone app sounded really really good.

In theory, the scale did as expected, however, the software component leaves a lot to be desired. For starters and this is the show stopper, the Body Fat % is completely wrong, not just a little wrong as you would expect with an estimated value, it's off by a lot. I had been using a considerably cheaper digital scale that gave me body fat readings and the Withings scale was nearly 30% off (in my case, 29% versus 24%).

I naturally assumed the Withings scale was the one that was correct (or hoped this was the case since it gave a much lower body fat %). I was annoyed enough by the difference that I decided to go and do a hydrostatic body fat test (the dunk tank), which is considered the gold standard in body fat estimation.

The results were surprising,... Read more
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