We have a typical Soehnle bathroom scale. It’s been getting on my nerves lately as it had given me some flukey, inconsistent readings. I like telemetry, so I decided that I’d upgrade. I looked around and found Tanita, a Japanese manufacturer that makes all sorts of digital scales that scan your body etc. In fact, when I had a comprehensive medical last year, they had one of these scales. So I shelled out $500 and bought one of their best consumer models on friday.
WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!
Firstly, I can’t believe it was made in Japan. It had the design-taste and construction quality of something made in Wuhan, China, or perhaps North Korean, not Japan.
But more importantly, the scale (presumably the simplest measurement) was total garbage. I could get on get off get on get off get on get off and get different readings each time. Sorry, I spent $500 for a digital scale, not a mettler balance, so I am not interested in estimating true weight through multiple observations.
I figure “well, if you can’t even measure my weight repeatably (let alone accurately), why should I believe that any of the other fancy measurements you take, body fat, hydration, muscle mass, etc, are believable?” Fortunately I bought it at Takashimaya, so there was no problem returning it.
So I don’t know, maybe the only real way to get accurate weight is to get a physician-style mechanical scale? Ugh. That’s gross and big. But these digital scales all have been shit so far.
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