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Lil' Mini Review: Internet Blubber Monitor
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Sep 12, 2010, 06:19 PM
 
Also known as the Withings scale.

The apps are free, but you have to spend $150 on the scale.
It seems "bathroom scale" accurate. Don't use it to weigh your blow.
Ironically, it's super sensitive too. Too often it won't settle on a weight after about 30 seconds and the thing just gives up.
The glass (or glass like) surface is a magnet for any grot on your feet; you have to use it barefoot, or the blubber sensor won't work.

All that said, setup is easy, and if you want to track your blubber, it's excellent. After setup, there's no effort involved other than stop shoving those chips and pizza in your face.



It tracks blubber blubber too, Not just lean blubber. The blubber blubber comes with an objective. Figure out yourself why I didn't show that. My sliver of integrity however, demands I note that spike at the end is probably due to clothed vs. nekkid.

It's capable of tracking multiple people. I have no idea if it can tell the difference between people with similar weight/blubber content. I'd guess not.

If you have the cash to spare, and are interested in what it does, I recommend it.
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Update: got decent tech support after the scale wigged out. The scale got confused who I was even though I'm the only person registered to the account.




Edit: it's easily fixable. I should have made that clear.
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Originally Posted by subego View Post
Ironically, it's super sensitive too. Too often it won't settle on a weight after about 30 seconds and the thing just gives up.
Update two: there are actually little arrows which come up on the display that are telling you "your center of gravity is way over to one side; lean this way... okay, now that way". If you follow along, it does a good job of getting a quick reading.

I had no idea what the arrows were telling me to do when I wrote the review.
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Ha. Guess they found it useful to incorporate a bit of Wii Fit into the device.
     
   
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