Wi-Fi Withings scale and Gym Technik partners in New technology
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About Gym Technik Mobile Fitness TrackingA tool that allows you to log your workout stats for cardio and weight exercises easily on your iPhone as you workout.
French company Withings has produced possibly the ultimate accessory for the techie looking to lose a little weight a WiFi connected body scale.
Designed to hook in to your home network providing your bathroom has wireless coverage – the Wi-Fi Connected Body Scale offers the usual raft of features found on high-end weighing scales: body weight measurement in stones, pounds, or kilograms, lean mass and fat mass percentages, and a rough estimate of your body mass index, or BMI.
The Withings Wi-Fi would have been alien technology in the 1950s. "What do you mean, this scale posts your weight on the 'internet', and then graphs it on your iPhone? And yet, folks, this is our world today.
Withings, there's such a thing as over-sharing. In November, Withings, the maker the of the first (and only, AFAIK) WiFi scale, announced that users could now tweet their readings on their Twitter streams.
Now, when you stand on a Withings scale, your body weight, fat percentage, and mass index stats can now automatically upload to a Gym Technik account.
Software giant is looking into reports that some Windows Live customers may have gotten access to other users information.
The Withings scale, already breaking waves as the first Wi-Fi body scale that uploads weight and body mass data to personal online accounts, announces this week a new partnership with Gym Technik, enabling much easier tracking via pretty much any smartphone on the market.
