- Hey there everybody, Phil here for AndroidCentral.com.
Phil here for AndroidCentral.com.
Phil here.
(mumbles) we're clipped.
Wait, wait where are we?
- We are in Palo Alto, California, Phil.
- We are at the Cadillac event here in San Diego.
We're here in London.
We are now in New Orleans.
Here at the Moscone West Center, San Francisco, California.
We're here in Times Square, New York.
We are in Barcelona, Spain.
Welcome to
IFA
in Berlin.
I am in Seoul, South Korea
in the Gangnam district,
believe it or not.
We are the Mobile Nations and Geek Beat Meetup
in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.
(record scratch)
Yup.
That's me.
You're probably wondering how I managed
to stay alive for so long
looking like that.
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So for the past few months
I've been keeping track of my blood pressure
and perhaps you just saw my video on that
where I've been using the wireless blood pressure cup
from Withings.
But I've also been using their scale
and I've been using the scale a lot longer.
In fact, I'm on my second version now,
so it works the way a scale works.
You stand on it and it figures out how much you weigh
and that's great but that's
not even the most important part.
Cool thing about this is you can use it with your
entire family and you don't even have to do anything.
It just
it works automatically.
Check this out.
So here's thew way it works.
You set up all the users within the Withings app.
So I've got myself, I've got my wife,
and I actually have my two kids.
And as they go and stand on the scale
it will initially say, hey, which person is this?
And then it recognizes, alright, we've got somebody
on here who's almost 200 pounds.
No longer 200 pounds, though,
but almost 200 pounds.
That's probably Phil.
Or, hey, here's somebody who's about 40, 50 pounds.
Alright, that must be Isabella, the little one,
and in between.
So it does a really good job
of determining who's on the scale at any given time.
So every time I weigh myself on the scale,
it automatically kicks it back up to Withings' back end,
over my wifi, and I don't have to do a thing.
All I have to do is weigh myself, naked, every morning.
Picture that for a minute, just.
I'll wait.
Let that sink in.
Hey Greg, do you drip dry first?
Or do you weigh yourself wet?
Oh yeah, you gotta,
yeah, yeah.
Put some (grunts)
- [Greg, Off Camera] Shake first, get the ball (mumbles)
(Phil grunts)
- So this is where it gets really smart.
This is the dashboard in the Withings app,
and every time I share this, people ask what it is.
So that's what it is.
It's the Withings app.
And here's my weight.
So this keeps track of every data point,
every time I have weighed myself.
Way back into 2014.
It has every single point in here.
And that's fine, that's good.
I could obsess over each and every little weigh that I do.
What I really want to look at is this thick trend line here.
This really shows how much I've changed over time
and not each and every little point.
And you can see as we zoom in there,
some of the points are higher,
some of the points are lower,
but it's that average, it's that trend line that's really
what's been important to me,
and I can see that I've gone from 210
down to less than 190 now, and even back in the day,
it was up even higher.
But it's that trend line that's really important here.
Now this scale will also do things
like measure your body composition.
The newer scale will do body water percentage
and I actually just switched to this scale
so I'm gonna start getting those data points here shortly.
And it will track your BMI, which some people say
you need to keep a close watch on, some say you don't,
but you get a pretty good idea of what's going on.
So here's the Withings app.
It's relatively the same on iOS as it is on Android.
Got your different users here up top.
Timeline, dashboard, leaderboard, profile, reminders.
Now Withings does tie into HealthKit,
which is Apples' thing.
It also ties into Google Fit on Android,
so if that's what you use to keep track of all your stuff
it will automatically sync in there as well
once you tie them together.
No big deal.
Alright, so a couple things
about the scale I want to point out.
One, it's got this glass, acrylic, I don't know what
finish on the top here
and it picks up every little bit of dirt and dust.
It shows every little drop of water or God knows what.
It's gonna get a little nasty.
It's a little nasty here and this is just in our office.
This isn't even at home.
You've got your display up top.
Not a whole lot to be said about the underside.
Comes with four AAA batteries, which you're gonna
have to replace very now and then.
It does a good job of showing you
on the display, actually, when the battery's
about to run out.
I've maybe had to change it
twice since I've had it.
And then it has a little syncing button
that I don't think I've ever had to push
after maybe the initial pairing.
If you're putting it on a
relatively hard surface like this
or bathroom tile or whatever, you're good to go.
Just put it down.
You want it to be relatively level but that's it.
If you want to use it on a rug or a carpet,
you're gonna need to use the four feet
that actually come in the box with it.
There's one, there's two
there's three,
four feet.
And they just stick on
to each of the feet,
thusly.
And that
will allow it to work on carpet.
Kinda cool.
Knowing how much you weigh is one thing.
Doing something about it is a totally other thing.
I'm gonna go do something about it now at the gym.
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So I'll see you later.
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