Withings has just revealed one of the smartest scales ever

Withings has just revealed one of the smartest scales e'er

(Prototype credit: Withings)

As sure every bit night follows day, so practise new year diets follow the overindulgence of vacation season eating and drinking, and so it's no surprise that CES 2022 comes with new health-related products, specifically a set of smart scales from Withings.

Withings already has a pedigree in both fitness tracking via its hybrid smartwatches and its range of popular smart scales, including the Withings Body Plus, which has been one of the best smart scales on the market for a while, just the new Withings Body Scan aims to accept reading your body composition to a new level.

With a retractable handle sporting built-in steel electrodes, the Withings Body Scan can carry out half dozen-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) readings (scans for the likes of arrhythmia and the detection of vascular age) and assess nerve activity. Through the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis, the scales tin can provide segmented torso composition measurements whereby the scales assess the fat and water limerick of unlike parts of your body.

And that's just the outset of the sensor suite, with an additional four weight sensors and 14 Indium tin oxide electrodes built into the scales, these sensors allow for more points of contact with a person's body and enable readings for multiple parts of the body. This is opposed to other smart scales with fewer sensors, as those tend to focus on the lower body.

an image of a woman using the Withings Body Scan — (Epitome credit: Withings)

This precision trunk composition will, in theory, permit users to figure out where they have potentially harmful visceral fat on their trunk, rather than relatively harmless subcutaneous fatty; the erstwhile tend to be invisible to the naked eye, while the latter is the wobbly fatty 1 tin encounter on their body. Segmented body composition tin likewise detect muscle imbalance.

The power to assess nerve action is a notable feature. Having worked with French company Impeto Medical, Withing'due south has enabled the Body Scan scales to rail sweat gland activity in a person's feet. Whatever bug with that activity can be an indication of degeneration or dysfunction in nerve fibres, thus triggering a person to take action; a healthy diet and regular action can alter this.

Meanwhile, the ECG tech can record middle patterns via an algorithm, which tin assist detect any abnormalities. These can and so be shown on the scales' 3.5-inch display or inside the Withings Wellness Mate app. And that data can exist shared with medical professionals, though the scales need to receive FDA clearance before they are sold in the U.S. and Europe in the second half of 2022. The Withings Body Scan is set to cost $299 and will come in black and white color options.

Substantially if all this tech works well and gets FDA blessing, you lot could be looking at a gear up of smart scales that offers an everyday tool for "end-to-terminate" health management. Add in things like an Apple Watch seven or some of the best fitness trackers and you could have a smart fix up to aid you continue fit and healthy this year.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.Thou. Editor at Tom'southward Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He oft writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he's as well got an interest in cars. When not at his desk-bound Roland can exist found wandering around London, often with a look of curiosity on his face.