Share Your Body’s Information with Social Networking Body Scale

You read that correctly. Now you can share your weight with the world. Think that’s odd? Well so did I when I first read about it. It was brought to my attention on the podcast TWiT, where the host Leo Laporte was discussing how social the scale really is. His passion and love for it didn’t

persuade me to want it until I started seeing the implications of accountability, and now my interest is piqued.

The Withings WiFi Body Scale is the first of its kind, as far as I know, but allowing users to not just take their daily body measurements, but also have that data connect with their Google Health account as well as Tweet messages out to people. It does all in real time with the built in WiFi connection, relieving you of having to write down numbers and manually input them. Now you can avoid the settings all together and not have it post to Google Health or Twitter, but then again, why did you buy it?

If you’re willing to share it with the world, and be accountable for your efforts, then you’re looking at dropping about $159 bones for it. Seems expensive for a body scale, but for some it’s worth it. Many think the medical industry could help as doctors might appreciate having their patients document and track their own health numbers with the ability of their doctor to see the numbers and work with them to achieve their goals. Ultimately though, internet enabled appliances have not taken the world by storm, so only time will tell if this does any better.