Engadget41%

Withings' new ultra-premium scale goes on sale today 76%

By Daniel Cooper88%

7/15/2026, 11:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Biased Writer Voice, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 48.2% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 564 faulty-reasoning hits from 193 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.4% and a BS Rank of 76% (3,810 of 15,884 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.00% of the article peer group.

Back in January, Withings showed off the Body Scan 2, an updated version of its ultra-premium scale. 
Now, the company has received the necessary regulatory approvals and can put it on sale in the US. 
As of today, you'll be able to order Body Scan 2 from Withings' website, priced at the we-did-warn-you-it-was-ultra-premium price of $600. 
The company says the scale will offer data of comparable quality to a clinical-grade DEXA scan  and by that comparison, it's not pricey, it's cheap. 
Body Scan 2 promises to offer a level of scanning never before seen in an at-home bathroom scale. 
The number of biomarkers it can analyze has gone from 40 on the first model to 60 here, including Impedance Cardiography (ICG) which monitors your heart's capacity to pump blood to the organs. 
Second, Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (BIS) uses a low level electrical current to check your body's total water, letting the scale keep an eye on your cellular age, active cell mass and metabolic efficiency. 
Body Scan 2 is available to order today, with a free one-month trial of Withings+, the company's premium health-monitoring service. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
17.1%
Availability Heuristic
9.3%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
24.4%
Loss Aversion
10.4%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
9.3%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
30.1%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
25.4%
Primacy Effect
8.8%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
9.3%
False Dilemma
13.5%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
9.3%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
17.1%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
30.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
30.1%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
48.2%

193 words analyzed.

Analysis

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