![]() ![]() If his scale hadn't been hooked up to the internet, sending and charting his weight, he would not have noticed the "seasonal yo-yo effect" in his weight, he said. When he noticed his weight going up early in the year, he decided to start cutting back on fatty foods.Ī graph of his weight on his iPhone, which is connected to the scale, too, shows he's lost about 20 pounds since the summer. It's like digital peer pressure, he said. It seems no gadget is too small or insignificant for an internet hookup.Įven bathroom scales have Wi-Fi connections.Ĭedric Hutchings, CEO of a French tech company called Withings, has been using his company's Wi-Fi-enabled scale to tweet his weight to friends. "smart" - gadgets promoted at this massive technology trade show includes washing machines that send text messages and communicate with smartphones, refrigerators that play music from the internet, and kitchen ovens that download recipes and can essentially teach you to cook. "Are you telling me my refrigerator will know things, like what I'm craving right now?" "Just exactly what do you mean by smart technology? Smart like Einstein? Smart like LG products can read my mind? "Smart technology - really?" Jane Lynch, who plays Sue on "Glee," said in a video at an LG press conference here. Now, according to tech companies at the Consumer Electronics Show, it's time to equip pretty much everything else in the home with smart technology, too. Las Vegas (CNN) - Phones are "smart." So are TVs. ![]() Editor's note: Follow and for Twitter updates this week from the Consumer Electronics Show. ![]()
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