Withings Launches New iPhone-Connected Smart Scale With 'Eyes Closed' Mode

[MacRumors]

Withings today announced the launch of the Body Smart, a new iPhone-connected smart scale that is meant to provide advanced features at an affordable $100 price point.

According to Withings, the scale uses Withings Precision Technology that combines multifrequency bioelectrical impedance analysis, precision weight transistor sensors, and advanced algorithms to provide a weight and body composition analysis.

Bioelectrical impedance analysis uses electrical signals to measure the resistance and reactance of body tissues to determine water weight, fat, muscle mass, and visceral fat. The Body Smart can measure Basal Metabolic Rate as well, which is the number of calories that a person burns at rest. The scale also includes health measurements like standing heart rate and metabolic age.

Withings added an "Eyes Closed Mode" that hides weight from the scale screen for those who prefer not to look or who want to be discreet when using the scale around others. When activated, the scale will instead offer up encouraging motivating messages or daily information like step counts, air quality, and weather. In this mode, weight is still added to the Withings app so that it can be checked later.

Up to eight family members can use the Body Smart, and there are built-in modes like athletic, pregnancy, and baby, so even small children can be monitored. This is Withings' lowest priced smart scale with body assessment technology, and it is sold alongside the $200 Body Comp and the $300 Body Scan. The Body Comp is able to calculate vascular age, while the Body Scan includes vascular age and a 6-Lead ECG.

The Body Smart can be purchased from the Withings website for $99.95.

Article Link: Withings Launches New iPhone-Connected Smart Scale With 'Eyes Closed' Mode

 

[robbietop]

Withings Scale: "You're absolutely beautiful!!!"
Withings App: "Your weight is in an unhealthy range."

 

[User 6502]

I had a terrible experience with their products and wouldn’t recommend them. There are better and cheaper smart scales that connect to apple HealthKit.

 

[User 6502]

Withings Scale: "You're absolutely beautiful!!!"
Withings App: "Your weight is in an unhealthy range."

I couldn’t believe they honestly thought making a scale that doesn’t tell you your weight was a good idea. What’s next? A smartwatch that tells you how healthy your heart is whilst telling the phone you’re about to have a heart attack?

 

[dannyyankou]

If you want to enable "eyes closed mode", you probably shouldn't get a scale in the first place if the number makes you feel insecure. Seriously, you need to look after your mental health as well.

 

[sw1tcher]

Withings today announced the launch of the Body Smart, a new iPhone-connected smart scale that is meant to provide advanced features at an affordable $100 price point.

$100 for a scale is considered affordable? The heck?

 

[pwygant]

I'm confused, the Withings Body Smart product is available for $60 from Amazon with 32K reviews already and it was released today?

 

[Spock]

I had a terrible experience with their products and wouldn’t recommend them. There are better and cheaper smart scales that connect to apple HealthKit.

I cant tell you how the experience was, I could never get the thing to work with my devices.

 

[RalfTheDog]

I like the new sound effects. If you are a bit over weight, it makes a laughing sound. Add a few more pounds and, "The scale says, 'Mooooo!'" A few more pounds after than and it makes a crumpling glass breaking sound followed by saying, "ug!"

 

[antiprotest]

$100 for a scale is considered affordable? The heck?

Probably a copy & paste article from press release.

(Not judging. Just saying this appears to be the case.)

 

[Spudlicious]

Was there ever a less meaningful, impactful, dynamic, and memorable brand name than Withings? I doubt it.

 

[appleguy123]

Americans will do anything to avoid accountability for their dietary choices. A $100 scale that doesn’t tell you your weight will fit right in.

 

[iamasmith]

I dropped a lot of weight and now my Withings scale asks me daily if it's me or my wife standing on it and I also know my daughter is stepping on it from time to time and she's about the same weight so there's no real hiding the broad measurement if folks are close. (they aren't that big but I'm doing 10k runs every day and pretty lean now)

 

[klasma]

This is Withings' lowest priced scale,

This is incorrect. They still sell the “Body” scale for $60, and you can get an equivalent of the “eyes closed” mode by just taping over the display (or by closing your eyes… ).

 

[kildraik]

Shame should not be suppressed; It should be displayed and communicated loud and clear.

 

[klasma]

I couldn’t believe they honestly thought making a scale that doesn’t tell you your weight was a good idea. What’s next? A smartwatch that

…doesn’t tell you what time it is when you’re already too late.

But seriously, it makes sense for a scale because weight varies so much from day to day, what you really want is the calculated trend based on the exponential moving average.

 

[Kar98]

Was there ever a less meaningful, impactful, dynamic, and memorable brand name than Withings? I doubt it.

Every single "brand name" that comes up when you're searching for anything on Amazon these days.

All Your Favorite Brands, From BSTOEM to ZGGCD (Published 2020)

How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks.

www.nytimes.com

 

[MrJM]

Americans will do anything to avoid accountability for their dietary choices. A $100 scale that doesn’t tell you your weight will fit right in.

I think Withings are French Iirc

 

[erk_0]

I had a terrible experience with their products and wouldn’t recommend them. There are better and cheaper smart scales that connect to apple HealthKit.

This. The scale is constantly disconnecting from WiFi and even bluetooth. Their app is soooo loaded with "features" and nonsense that it clearly forgets the basic function... your weight.

 

[TVreporter]

“Please stop crushing me… and have a calorie free day!”

 

[turbineseaplane]

Buy the Wyze scale for $28

These are a huge ripoff

 

[coolfactor]

If you want to enable "eyes closed mode", you probably shouldn't get a scale in the first place if the number makes you feel insecure. Seriously, you need to look after your mental health as well.

Oh my! So your advice is to not monitor one's weight when one's weight is a mental health concern? 😱 I think that's backwards. Having a scale can be a motivation to lose weight.

 

[klasma]

Americans will do anything to avoid accountability for their dietary choices. A $100 scale that doesn’t tell you your weight will fit right in.

Withings is a French company, by the way. Hence the weird “cool made-up English portmanteau word” name.

 

[spatlese44]

I've got a scale from another company that does the same things. As others have mentioned, it was more like $70. If there's one thing I don't like about it, it's that I have to open my phone and launch their app to get it to capture the weight. I was hoping this one would do that, but apparently not. Should be:

step on scale
bluetooth activates and connects to iPhone
data syncs to phone
bluetooth deactivates after a couple of minutes
data goes straight to health app

?? doesn't sound like a technological feat to me

 

[Kar98]

I've got a scale from another company that does the same things. As others have mentioned, it was more like $70. If there's one thing I don't like about it, it's that I have to open my phone and launch their app to get it to capture the weight. I was hoping this one would do that, but apparently not. Should be:

step on scale
bluetooth activates and connects to iPhone
data syncs to phone
bluetooth deactivates after a couple of minutes
data goes straight to health app

?? doesn't sound like a technological feat to me

Is there a scale that works like that? Because that's how I had hoped a smart scales would work.