Withings’ new smart scale measures your nerve and artery health
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Withings first teased measuring nerve health back at CES. | Image: Withings Withings has a few nifty ideas when it comes to smart scales, and for IFA 2022, it's announced the Body Comp. What makes the Body Comp stand out is it can assess the health of your arteries and nerves in addition to normal" body composition. Withings is also introducing a new Health Plus coaching service alongside the scale to help users meet their goals.
Smart scales like the Body Comp all use BIA to send a weak current through your body to determine how much muscle, water, bone, and fat you have. (Though, you should always take these scales' accuracy and health claims with a grain of salt.) What's novel here is users can assess their vascular age, visceral fat, and nerve health from a single device. Visceral fat refers to the fat...