17.02.2023 15:10 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Withings’ luxury weighing scale is amazing, if inessential

I wonder how often technology journalism is aspirational rather than useful, like when you watch car reviewers testing million dollar rides. I comfort myself knowing that while flagship laptops are pricey, there are few gadgets so eye-wateringly expensive that they’re just for one percenters. What then to make of Withings’ newest smart scale, the Body Scan Connected Health Station, which is priced at four hundred British pounds (around $479)? That’s mad money to pay for any smart scale, especially when you can get a great scale from Withings for a quarter of that price.Withings’ Body Scan was actually announced back at the start of 2022, but the usual gamut of regulatory hurdles means it’s only now making its debut in Europe. It’ll arrive in the US at some point in the future, but given the FDA’s sausage machine it’s hard to get anyone to commit to a firm date. The intervening year has also dented the price, which was originally set at $300 before costs and the

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