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Asimov's Law Weighing Machines: Scales That Lie

No one likes learning their weight from a set of scales, so Alice Wang's new concept devices take inspiration from Asimov's First Law of Robotics to protect you from the cruel truth. Her three scales are designed to not "harm a human being " (i.e. you) by either requiring another person to read them or just flat-out lying to you. Dieting would never feel the same again. More »

9:51 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,401 views, 15 comments

Latest by 92BuickLeSabre: @ideaman2020: Well, sure. If your going to change the entire conversation to talk about something totally different, I agree with more »

gadgets

Paper e-Ink Scale Design Looks Great on Paper, Might Not Be Practical

This e-paper bathroom scale idea from Duck Image Studio seems like a fantastic idea at first. It's e-ink, so it's thin, which means you can embed it into bath mats or floor tiles or maybe even into your shower. Imagine being able to see how much you weigh every time you bathed, or brushed your teeth, or took a leak (men only). You'd develop body image issues in record time. [Yanko Design]

2:47 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Jason Chen
2,388 views, 9 comments

Latest by toyotaboy: yeah I can't imagine being able to build the measuring part thin while keeping accuracy and cost down. Neat more »

gadgets

Bathroom Egg Scale Wins Eggnoble Award

What better way to remind yourself that you're big boned than to get a bathroom scale that looks like it's made out of eggs. This, like the 20 second workout girl, lets our wives know what we really think. More »

4:15 PM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By Jason Chen
1,883 views, 8 comments

home entertainment

Kids Get 40% More Calorie Burning Playing Wii Than 360, PS3

As a follow up to our post before about a lady complaining that her kids were playing sports on the Wii instead of out engaging in the real thing, here's a study from a Liverpool university that says kids burn 40% more calories from playing Wii than other consoles. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By Jason Chen
4,602 views, 23 comments

Latest by Lupison: All I know for sure is that the mom in the far left is a definite MILF. more »

gadgets

Design Calendar: The Weight of Time

Winner of the 2005 Kokuyo design awards, this calendar uses weight to determine what month it is. From robotic translation we can gather that you place the weight on the spring, and depending on how heavy the current date is, "the machine which measures the time" is. Yeah. More »

4:40 PM on Thu Dec 28 2006
By Jason Chen
686 views, 10 comments

Latest by Daniel K: "Landlord..." C'mon, admit it. "Warden." more »

gadgets

Scale Weighs You In With Celebs: Hope You're Not Mr. Ed

Weight is just a number, right? Not any more with the Celebrity Weighing Scale, eschewing numbers altogether and assigning you a celebrity that corresponds to your weight. Let's just hope you tip the scales closer to that of the Baby Jesus or Oliver Twist, rather than its higher end, comparing you to the likes of Mr. Ed or King Kong. You'll feel cool if you match up with Chuck Norris or Goldie Hawn. More »

12:14 PM on Tue Aug 29 2006
By Charlie White
244 views, 5 comments

Latest by thrillhouse: hmmm... thought Roseanne would be followed by: Al Roker (post 2002) Willard Scott Dom DeLouise Al Roker (pre 2002) more »

gadgets

Tanita Scale With Fat Sensor and Bluetooth

There's a reason why the Japanese aren't nearly as fat as Americans. Tanita's BC-502 scale can measure your weight and send a small current through your body to tell you your BMI and fat ratio. More »

2:55 PM on Fri May 19 2006
By Jason Chen
2,106 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Bod Pod Measures Fat with Thin Air

You've probably heard of hydrostatic weighing, where the amount of water your body displaces while submerged reveals how much of you is lean meat and how much is flab. The Bod Pod takes that concept a step further, using air instead of water to see what you're really made of. It measures mass and volume, and from that it can extrapolate your whole-body density. More »

1:13 PM on Thu May 4 2006
By Charlie White
414 views, 5 comments

Latest by Sockatume: Read up on these during my high school biology course back in the day (2001, I think). I'll stick with more »

scales

Citizen Scale Measures Internal Organ Fat


There are two ways of looking at fat in America: either we are too obsessed with it, or not nearly obsessed enough. This lovely HM7000 scale from Citizen fits in the latter category. It not only measures fat, but the fat levels of your internal organs, basal metabolic rate, inner body age (say what?), amount of muscle and estimated bone density. Yes, but can I put my morning Twinkies on the scale and have it tell me exactly how much weight I will gain from eating them both in one bite? Well? More »

11:40 AM on Thu Jan 12 2006
By Noah R
462 views, 3 comments

Latest by Michael: Repton, it looks to me like it works the way all body fat measuring scales do--by sending an electrical pulse more »

robots

Robot Dog to Human: "Go for a walk, fatty."

In last month's episode of "What odd thing is MIT making now" we discovered the jerk-o-meter that analyzed telephonic speech patterns to determine if your "friends" really care about your "life" over the phone. Well this month the crazy MIT kids are making life even more pitiful with one of those Sony robotic dogs. This AIBO robot can criticize one of the issues that makes people feel most insecure, weight gain. The dog links up to the weight scale, a pedometer and a personal organizer that food intake logs are stored in. From there the robot can properly calculate how much of a tub of lard you are and insist that you go for a walk, or a liposuction. Thanks MIT, now you guys are rocket scientists who also get to take stabs at the rest of the world. More »

9:50 AM on Fri Sep 2 2005
By Travis Hudson
386 views