A bathroom scale that posts your weight on Twitter ( with consent )

[Papa Deuce]

The idea is that it will motivate you to saty on track and you will compete against your friends.... ( Personally I don't use Twitter, but Facebook would be cool ).....


A new WiFi-enabled scale from Withings encourages users to lose weight by sharing their body weight, lean & fat mass, and calculated body mass index (BMI) on Twitter.

Personal metrics have been shown to help people reach their fitness goals. And Wired.com recognizes new devices like the Nike+ can get people moving.

Noone is now running four times a week and just did her first 10-mile race ... And she attributes much of her newfound fitness to the power of data. "I can log in to Nike+ and see what I've done over the past year," she says. "That's really powerful for me."


But will sharing embarrassing weight-fluctuation info help dieters in the same way fitness data has encouraged runners?

A press release from Withings confirms that the scale will not share your information without your consent. "By default, the Twitter feature will not be activated when you purchase your scale ... Only the users that enable this feature will benefit from the online peer motivation."


Not only does this bad boy register your weight, body fat, and BMI, but you can now configure it to send your stats to "the Twitter" either daily, weekly, monthly, or each and every time you weigh - and your followers will start dropping faster than even you could imagine.

What do you think? Would you be willing to share your weight-loss struggle with the Twitterverse if it could inspire you to become the next Biggest Loser? Or is this one Fail Whale you would prefer to keep private?


You in?

 

[OceanAnnie]

That wouldn't be my cup of tea.

 

[Becky2005]

Not in this lifetime -- although it *would* be interesting if it just Twittered away all the flucuations it got between all my kids using the scale & all the other gazillion things we weigh (we have been known to weigh full backpacks here).

It would confuse the Twitter -- wait you weigh 98 pounds, an hour later you weigh 69 pounds..now you weigh 70 pounds...now you weigh 10 pounds...now you weigh 3 digit pounds, what the hey? Your body mass is all over the place.

I don't Twitter though but it wouldn't do diddly squat for me because I would end up ignoring it.

 

[minkydog]

Uh, no thanks.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

This scale would not help me. Since July 4th, I have lost 23 pounds. I didn't lose them for fear of what others would think of me if I did not. What should I care if people follow my weight loss journey. I'm not losing the weight for them, I lost it for me.

If you need the fear of others mocking or loving you to push you to weight loss, your probably not ready to change your life.

 

[LuvOrlando]

uhhhhh, no thanks for that. Pounds lost, yes. Pounds to lose, yes. But the specific number, not so much. Especially on a daily basis like after I cheated and had some chips, oh the torture just thinking about it

 

[diznygirl]

Tmi

 

[Papa Deuce]

So, it seems, like I imagined, this scale will not sell well.... How many people would actually open themselves up like that?