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Withings WiFi Body Scale Now Available In Australia

Nick Broughall — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:30:11 +0000

If you need high technology in every household appliance, you’ll be happy to know that the Withings WiFi Body Scale is now available in Australia, letting you track your weight over Wi-Fi.

The device can track up to eight different users, sending results to a password-protected website or iPhone app. It not only measures weight, but also calculates BMI and fat and lean masses. Plus, it automatically switches itself off.

The superfied set of scales will set you back $249, although it’s available for $225 until Xmas.

[Wifiscale]

Cheapo Version of Wii Fit Offers 100 Million Workouts

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Jump into your glittery spandex pants and crown you head with that leopard headband, because you are going to need them to follow the 100 million—yes, million—three-minute workouts of the Minutes Gym Digital Video Trainer.

That’s what Takara Tomy says: Their $US73 Minutes Gym thingie will give you 100,000,000 different workout exercises, three minutes each. It will also measure your fat and keep track of it over a three month period. I don’t know how well this will work—or if it will work at all—but I like the cute graphics:

[Japan Trends via Oh Gizmo!]

Bathroom Pin Scale Makes Knowing Your Weight Twice as Painful

Sean Fallon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:20:00 +0000

This bathroom scale by designer Jim Ruck takes a painful-looking approach to the simple act of weighing yourself in the morning. Instead of a platform, the users stands on thousands of pins.

Obviously, the tightly-packed pins mean that no real pain will be involved (outside of the trauma generated by the digital readout), but it would mean that your weight would be more evenly distributed across your feet. The concept is interesting, but it would be even better if it could mold to shapes like those desktop pin art gadgets from the 80’s. That is, until your wife catches you trying to leave a print by weighing your arse. [Jim Ruck via Coolbuzz]

Wii Fit, Weight Fat: What’s the Difference?

Gizmodo US Edition — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:40:13 +0000

Weight Fat—found in a Japanese crane machine—blatantly rips off Wii Fit with its green, grey and white colour scheme and similar fonts. There’s a problem with this knock-off, though: it’s not even a video game.

The Weight Fat Checker is actually exactly what its name proclaims it to be: It’s a body fat checker that measures, displays and monitors your weight/fat when you grip the sides of it like a steering wheel. Here’s a thought: Just let me grip your fatty sides and I’ll check your weight/fat for you, for free. [CAG via Kotaku]

Toilet Seat Scale Makes You Feel Two Kilos Lighter

Sean Fallon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:20:00 +0000

The best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning before you eat and, preferably, after you have used the bathroom. That’s where the toilet seat scale comes in.

The best thing about it? It builds confidence:

“Whew, that was a fierce battle. I feel two kilos lighter. Saaay…I am two kilos lighter!”

Too bad it is only a concept, because the only way to get this kind of functionality is by dropping thousands on one of those fancy Japanese tech toilets. [Yanko]

Weighing Seat: A Chair That Weighs Fatties, Farts

Sean Fallon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:30:00 +0000

As if you didn’t already feel fat enough, how does sitting on a chair that doubles as a scale sound? Indeed, the Weighing Seat concept from the design team at Atypyk reminds you of how fat you are getting every time you sit down to eat. It could very well be the most effective diet you have ever been on. Either that, or it will force you to start eating your meals standing up. But look on the bright side, you can finally start weighing your farts. Ever been curious about that? What, just Jason and I? Come on guys, admit it. [Atypyk via Likecool]

Blocked Enzyme Curbs Appetite, Promotes Weight Loss, Probably Causes Cancer or Something

Adam Frucci — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Good news, America! Your faithful scientific elite have isolated a brain enzyme that, when blocked, decreases appetite, promotes weight loss and improves the body’s ability to handle blood sugar levels. You’ll be fat and diabetic no longer!

There’ll be no need to exercise when you’ll have easy access to a drug that makes trans-fat-laden fast food less appealing while it burns away the vast reserves of fat your body has been storing away all these years in preparation for a wilderness expedition you’ll never take. Of course, the blocked enzyme, CaMKK2, has only been tested in mice, but I mean mice are like one step away from humans, right?

Screw the testing, just bring us the drugs and we’ll take the risk. Just don’t make us keep exercising or using willpower to stay healthy. We can’t take it anymore. [Physorg]