- Okay folks, we're gonna get a little personal here.
And actually, we already have once before.
See if you remember this.
I'm here in Seoul, South Korea,
the Gangnam Distict believe it or not.
We are at the Mobile Nations and Geek Beat Meetup
in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada.
(record scratch) Yup that's me.
You're probably wondering (fades out)
So yeah it's a couple years later
and it's time to revisit this.
Let's go take another look at the Withings Body+ scale.
Now Withings is sponsoring this video,
but I tell you this is one of those rare tech products
that actually is still in home two years later
and that I still use just about every day.
So let's go take a look at what's new
and what's still the same actually
and why I think everybody needs something like this.
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So the Withings Body+ is what's known
as a body composition scale and really
that means it measures more than just how much you weigh.
It costs $99 and you can have it any color you want
as long as it's white or black.
And like I said, it can measure all kinds of stuff.
So it'll do weight of course, but it also does fat mass,
the percentage of body water.
It'll do bone mass, muscle mass, BMI.
It'll show you the weather
if you need it to show you the weather.
It'll also show you how many steps you've taken
if you need to see that on your scale.
That's all relatively simple stuff right,
especially the weight but also things like BMI.
I mean that's straight math.
We've all done that for years.
The body composition stuff is a little more fancy though.
Here's what's going on.
The Body+ scale uses bioelectrical impedance analysis
for that one and that is while you're standing on it,
it's actually sending these little electrical impulses
up through your body and measures the resistance
and impedance and all that electric.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but that's how it works.
And don't worry, you won't feel a thing.
You can't feel a thing.
It's not that strong an electrical current.
So setup is super simple.
You're gonna need the Withings app on your phone.
It works on iOS or Android.
It works really the same on either one.
You're gonna connect the scale
to your phone real quick over Bluetooth.
And then you're gonna give it your wifi password.
And that actually lets it work without your phone.
So it will sync directly to the cloud.
And you don't have to worry about having your phone on you.
After all that, it's really just a matter
of stepping on the thing.
And one more thing to remember here
and it's you know not my favorite part
of this video, but you gotta have bare feet.
That goes back to the whole electrical impedance thing.
It's also best to have the scale
on a hard surface like a wood or a tile floor.
But if you have to use it on carpet,
it comes with these little footy things
to put on the feet of the scale
that let you use it on carpet.
So that's nice.
So when it's actually doing its thing,
this is where stuff gets really cool.
The Body+ scale is smart enough
to figure out who's stepping on it.
So I created secondary accounts for my wife and kids.
When I step on the scale, it says,
"Hey, there's a 200 pound person!
"That's Phil" and I say, "Yes, yes it is."
So when my wife or kids stand on it,
it says, "All right, this person weighs less.
"That's who it is.
"I'm gonna sync their information to their account,
"your information to your account."
You'll only see your stuff unless you wanna go.
It's smart.
It works exactly how you would want something
like this to work.
And again to repeat, this is why the Body+ scale has been
in my house this long and I keep using it
because that's exactly what I expect this sort
of device to do and it does it.
And it does it really well
and it does it the first time, every time.
So I'll step on, I'll weigh myself,
and then it starts flashing through all the things
that it just measured, right.
Starts with weight for the obvious reasons,
goes through body mass, body composition, all that stuff.
And you can turn those on and off depending
on what it is you actually want to see.
I don't care about seeing the weather
or my steps on my scale so I just turn those off.
And it actually let's me get
through things a little bit quicker.
And after all that, as I mentioned,
it all syncs up to the cloud.
And that brings me to another really important feature
of all of this actually.
So what do you do with all that data?
I mean it's 2020.
It's not enough just to track it
and have it written down, right.
We gotta be able to do things with it.
Well all right, you can just use it all straight
within Withings app if you want.
And they make it really easy to export it
and send it to your doctor in a handy PDF.
So anything you measure
within the Withings ecosystem you can send their way,
very cool.
Or if you prefer and you're something like Google Fit
on Android and the Google ecosystem
or if you're using Apple's health stuff,
you can export your data into those streams as well.
So you don't have to go into the Withings app
and go into the Apple Health app.
Just open it up and all your data is one place, very cool.
Oh and by the way, I am also if you remember this old video,
still keeping track of my blood pressure.
That hasn't gone away yet.
Since then I have updated to the Withings BPM Connect.
It's the updated version of their blood pressure cuff.
And I tell you, I like it way better.
First, it's smaller.
It's just got a much, much improved design.
And it also has you know little LEDs on the front of it.
So I don't actually have to sync it
to my phone anymore to use it.
I just hit the button, it starts measuring things,
and once it's done its thing in about 60 seconds,
it shows me the result right there on the screen
and syncs it up to the cloud automatically via wifi.
No more phone, love that.
Keeping my blood pressure down though,
all right, I got a little more work to do there.
So that's it for the Withings Body+ scale.
Again, $99, something I use every single day.
Blood pressure cuff is $99 as well
if you wanna keep things in the same ecosystem,
which is really how I like to do it.
I like to try to keep things together as much as I can.
The scale makes it super easy to keep track
of your weight and all that other stuff.
And I tell you, I still don't really worry
about what each number is every day of the week.
I really am looking for that trendline right.
I wanna see it going down a little bit.
Flat is fine, up is bad, down is better.
So that's the important part and that's
why it's so important to be able to track all this stuff.
So that's it for the Withings Body+ scale.
If you got anymore questions on it,
hit me up in the comments or go find me on the socials.
That's it, see you next time!
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