Withings BodyScan 2 Review: Worth Its Weight
Source: Wired ·
After months of testing, this high-end smart scale has made me rethink how much a bathroom weigh-in can tell me.
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I’m going to be honest from the start: No, you probably don’t need a $600 scale in your bathroom if you are just doing occasional weigh-ins. Hell, I don’t even know that elite athletes need to make this kind of extreme outlay even if they need to periodically check on how their training is going. But I’m going to make the case for the Withings BodyScan 2 anyway. After spending several months with the device, the scale and its ecosystem have forced me to dig deeper into my health than ever before. At this point, I’m not sure I could go back to an older-model scale—even a very smart one like the original Withings Body Smart , which I used for years. There’s not much to distinguish the BodyScan 2 hardware from other smart scales aside from its handlebars, an indication that this device belongs to the now-burgeoning full-body scanner or body composition scale category. The device is, however, sleeker than most of its competition, featuring a svelte handle that somehow finds room for a…