OK, let’s Twitter your weight. Feel better?

Some tech things I just don’t get. Like this very cool bathroom scale.

It’s beautifully designed, it’s digital, has built-in wi-fi so it can send your weight to your router and upload it to a secure online weight tracking service. That all sounds perfect for geeks like me who like to track things.

But their latest new feature just has me wondering: Tweet your weight. I mean, really, who would want this? Is this just tech for tech’s sake?

Picture the scene: Woman walks into bathroom, sees the scale and avoids stepping on it in case she’s picked up weight. Scale fail. Or she steps on it because she’s feeling confident that she’s lost some and waits for the reading… eeek… she’s 1kg up… quick take the batteries out of the scale… unplug the router… unplug the internet… switch off the power… a mad scramble as the faithful device delivers the message to the whole world via Twitter.

Here’s a sample Tweet: http://twitter.com/Withings/status/5563892617

Their website: Withings - Withings - The WiFi Scale