What’s a Withings you ask?
It’s an internet connected scale.
The scale is wirelessly connected to the internet with Wi-Fi. Everytime I weigh myself the scale connects to the internet and updates my weight and body fat content (it uses electrical impulses sent through my feet to measure my fat) on the Withings website and on my Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault accounts. It also sends a tweet out via my UncleLar twitter account which is connected to Facebook so my Facebook status is automatically updated too.
The Withings site also provides widgets which I can put on websites like this one to track my progress. Here’s how I’m doing so far (although I’ve only had the scale for a couple of days, I’m about a month into a campaign to lose a lb a week so I can get back down below 200 by around the end of September).
That is amazing! What’s next?
How do you pronounce “Withings”?
I’ve been pronouncing it Why-Things because it’s Wi-Fi connected. However, after a little research, I believe the correct pronunciation is With-ings with the emphasis on the first syllable.
Withings is actually a French company and the scale is really nicely made and good looking (I’ve heard it described as Apple-esque).
So explain Thursday. Did you lather your feet with peanut butter to get that explosion of fat?
Good question. Not sure why it registered that spike. I weighed myself several times that day and I think the spike was just after I had come in from a walk so maybe my exercising threw it off somehow. I’ll pay close attention next time I go for a walk and see if I get a similar jump.
The fat hasn’t been registering the last few times. I think it’s because the batteries were low (I believe they shut off doing the electrical impulse through the feet when they get low) so I replaced them today. Given that I paid $12 for lithium batteries I hope they last a little longer than the week the ones that the scale came with did (if they don’t, I’m figuring out a way to shut off the fat measurement thing).