And who among us hasn't stepped on a bathroom scale to determine the damage from a previous night's pig-out?

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Back then, Deane and her mother did it all, from answering the phone to weighing packages on the bathroom scale.

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Before I knew how many calories were in it my body sure did, and it reported that information on my bathroom scale.

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And gadgets such as a bathroom scale made by Withings, a French company, can transmit a person's weight to a digital health-log on a computer or smartphone.

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"The Internet of Things is not about getting you more data for your bathroom scale -- it's about combining these devices with existing business models and making those models more effective, " he says.

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That convenience and ease is what makes the Withings scale stand out among the host of bathroom scales you can find at Target.

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