Technologies

Withings’ New Smart Scale Turns Your Daily Weigh-In Into a Longevity Check

This $600 Body Scan 2 measures things most people only hear about in a doctor’s office and can calculate how fast your body is aging.

Longevity has become one of the biggest buzzwords in health tech, and Withings is leaning in hard with the Body Scan 2, a $600 smart scale designed to paint a more complete picture of your health than just a standard bathroom weigh-in ever could.

Launched at CES 2026 as part of the wave of Consumer Electronics Show announcements, the Body Scan 2 is packed with firsts for an at-home device. It promises to assess everything from your risk of hypertension (high blood pressure) to early signs of glycemic dysregulation (a precursor to diabetes). In total, Withings says the scale measures more than 60 biomarkers that can influence long-term health, aging and the risk of chronic illness.

The goal isn’t just to show you numbers, but to spot small physiological changes early — while they’re still reversible — and guide you toward lifestyle changes that, over time, could extend and improve your quality of life.

The Body Scan 2 still looks like a futuristic bathroom scale with a pull-up exercise bar tied to the top. It has a flat tempered-glass surface and a retractable handle bar that’s connected by a cord. That handle has a color screen that displays on-the-spot metrics during weigh-ins.

Under the glasshood, the scale uses eight embedded electrodes in the platform and four stainless steel electrodes in the handle to collect its data and automatically sync data via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to the Withings app on your iPhone or Android. It runs on a rechargeable battery that Withings says can last up to 15 months.

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Withings isn’t new to this space. The company created one of the original connected scales back in 2009 and has since expanded into smartwatches, blood pressure monitors and other connected health devices. Body Scan 2 seems to be a culmination of all of these efforts, turning what used to be a single-measurement device into what the company calls an «at-home longevity station.»

Longevity has become a major theme in health tech, as companies look beyond the narrow snapshots captured during doctor visits. Instead, they’re starting to focus more on continuous, big-picture monitoring that reflects how people actually live day-to-day. Withings is betting that frequent, at-home measurements can help catch early warning signs related to heart health, metabolism or blood sugar regulation long before they turn into chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension or heart disease.

Turning a mountain of metrics into actionable insights

According to Withings, the Body Scan 2 uses five medical-grade technologies that, until now, have largely been limited to clinical or research settings. Combined, they track 60 biomarkers that fall into three core categories:

Heart and vascular health: The scale can flag your potential risk for high blood pressure without using a traditional cuff, similar to the blood pressure notifications found on newer Apple Watch models. It also looks at how efficiently your heart is pumping blood and the flexibility of your arteries. Together, these measurements offer early clues about heart health and whether your cardiovascular system may be under extra strain.

Cellular and metabolic health: The scale also looks at how efficiently your body uses energy at the cellular level and how your cells are aging. These measurements can offer insight into whether factors like stress, inactivity, inflammation or diet may be affecting your overall health.

Diet and glycemic regulation: The scale also looks for early signs of glycemic dysregulation, or how well your body manages blood sugar. Poor regulation can be a precursor to prediabetes and cause fatigue, abdominal fat gain, and ultimately accelerate aging (often without any obvious symptoms).

After a roughly 90-second weigh-in which requires you to pull the handle bar up to hip level, the app uses these measurements to come up with what Withings calls a Health Trajectory score that you can view in the Withings app. It establishes a personalized baseline for your health and tracks how it trends over time, rather than focusing on daily fluctuations.

Beyond the score itself, the app flags any major changes from that baseline and gives you guidance on lifestyle adjustments that could help correct any negative trends. The idea is to spot potential issues early, when they’re more likely to be reversible, and give you a preview of how those changes can influence long-term health.

As with all health data, privacy is a major concern. Withings addresses this by disclosing that the Body Scan 2 complies with GDPR and HIPAA, and carries ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications for data security and privacy management.

Pricing and availability

Body Scan 2 is pending FDA clearance for select metrics and is scheduled to launch in Q2 2026. Pricing is set at $600, £450 and AU$899, respectively. It will be available through Withings, Amazon and select retailers.

We haven’t tested Body Scan 2 yet, but we’ll update our coverage once we’re able to spend time with it in the real world.

For more product launches and first looks ahead of CES 2026, check out CNET’s full CES coverage.

Technologies

An Always-On AI Notetaker? This Startup Thinks You Can Just Use Your Phone

Thine doesn’t have its own pin or necklace to listen to everything so you can remember your conversations. It’s just an app.

The show floors of CES 2026 are awash with AI-powered notetaking and companion devices that listen to everything around you so you can go back and have a computer remember a conversation you just had. The folks at Thine think somebody else already got the hardware right, and all they need to give you is the app.

Pratyush Rai, the CEO of Thine, said in an interview that he decided to create an app for Apple’s iPhone because the functions he would’ve needed to create a device, like a pin, a ring or a necklace, already existed in the phone’s microphone and Siri functions.

«What we have realized is we should not try to solve a problem both from a hardware standpoint and a privacy standpoint that Apple has already solved for,» he said.

The iPhone streams live audio while it waits for you to say «Hey Siri,» and Thine uses that same function to capture and transcribe the conversations you have. Its microphone also has very good noise cancellation — something a new hardware company would have to work to perfect on its own.

From there, Thine takes over, training an AI model on those transcripts so you can ask questions like, «What did that AI executive tell me the other day at CES?» It will respond like a typical chatbot would, with a summary of that conversation. At CES, I watched as Rai asked Thine to recall the conversation we first had about the app two weeks earlier, and it provided accurate and pretty thorough highlights.

Rai said Thine doesn’t store the audio recordings of your conversations. The exact transcripts aren’t available right now, but the company is working on a new version that will provide those transcripts and allow you to upload them into your own chatbot, kind of like if you ran the Voice Memos app all the time and just kept the transcriptions. Rai said the decision to allow people to access verbatim transcripts came after feedback from users of competing AI notetaking devices, who said they really wanted the actual transcriptions.

For now, a fully functional Thine app is an expensive subscription: $200 per month. Rai said the target audience is executives and tech founders who want to keep track of all of their networking conversations. But he expects prices to come down significantly with scale, including as the AI models and software improve. Already, he said, those improvements allow the company to prepare the version that just offers transcriptions for around a dollar a month.

The big expense remains long-term storage — and keeping it secure. Rai said having those old conversations accessible by the AI model is essential to reduce hallucinations, when AI makes stuff up to fill the gaps in its context. When you’re trying to recall conversations you actually had with real people, you don’t want the AI’s best guess at what you talked about. You need the truth.

Being able to get that is key to Rai’s goal of creating an AI tool that helps you have better connections not with the chatbot, but with other people. He doesn’t want people to build relationships with Thine, but with each other. «This is not something we ever imagine with Thine,» he said.

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Today Only: Grab the HyperX Wireless Gaming Headset for Just $60 at Best Buy

Save a massive 50% on this state-of-the-art gaming headset while this flash deal lasts.

If you’re a gamer living with family, roommates or in a dorm, then you know how valuable a headset can be. Not only are they perfect for letting you play without missing any of the action, but they also allow your family to carry on without being privy to every blast. However, even these accessories are an added cost for your favorite hobby.

We’ve spotted this HyperX Cloud Flight gaming headset for just $60 at Best Buy. This saves you $60, which represents a discount of 50%. Keep in mind that this is one of Best Buy’s deals of the day, which means this discount ends at 9:59 p.m. PT today.

This gaming headset is made specifically for PS4 and PS5, laptops or PCs. It has a range of 66 feet and includes active noise cancellation so you can focus. HyperX also equipped this headset with a battery life of up to 30 hours for long gaming sessions.

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Why this deal matters

Gaming and its accessories can be quite the investment. That’s why deals like this one can help you save and put those dollars to use somewhere else. Keep in mind that the HyperX Cloud Flight gaming headset typically costs $120, so paying $60 means you’re only parting with half its value. Of note, this deal ends at 9:59 p.m. PT today, so it’s wise to act fast.

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Motorola Teases New Razr Folding Phone With ‘Boundary-Breaking Camera System’

An Instagram post from Motorola shows a book-style foldable phone ahead of CES presentation.

A day after leaker Evan Blass began posting information about a purported Motorola book-style foldable phone called the Motorola Fold, the company itself has released a teaser video on Instagram that appears to confirm the new smartphone.

«A new era is unfolding… See you in Vegas,» Motorola says in that video. Motorola’s parent company, Lenovo, will be making its Tech World presentation for CES 2026 from the Las Vegas Sphere on Jan. 6, with a livestream on YouTube.

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On Jan. 4, Blass posted what appeared to be a presentation slide that included text on the Motorola Razr Fold, noting that it would be released «later this year.» The slide promised «brilliant displays, intelligent AI and an advanced, boundary-breaking camera system.»

In the same post, Blass also included a slide for what could be Motorola’s next flagship phone, the Signature, which would feature four 50-megapixel cameras. The Motorola video preview shows a foldable phone that also includes four cameras. After Motorola made its video post on Instagram, Blass posted purportedly leaked product shows of the Fold and the Signature.

Motorola’s most recent foldable phones have been variations on the Motorola Flip phone. This would be the company’s first book-style foldable phone.