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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Tanita Body Composition Monitor

Filed under: OTC , Sports Medicine

An interesting personal scale, if it can be called in such a limited way, has been put to our attention as a nifty present for the health conscious and gadget obsessed man in your family. The device claims to provide accurate muscle mass and body fat numbers for each arm and leg, in addition to the body on the whole. And these and other numbers can be tracked via a graph screen on the top of the unit.

Our new father is planning to review the device hands on (feet on?) in the coming days to see if one needs to know Fortran to operate this thing.

Product page: Tanita BC558 Segmental Body Composition Monitor

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Not only that it can figure out what side of the body is fatter:

This totally unique product gives individual body composition readings for each body segment- trunk, right arm, left arm, right leg and left leg.

I'll love to see the "science" behind this.


Posted by: BlogReader
on June 13, 2008 07:36 AM GMT

Uhh the science is pretty simple really send electricity through the different probes and measure response times, resistance, and then compare them to each other. It's not hard.


Posted by: Jeff
on December 31, 2008 10:45 AM GMT

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