Have you ever recently considered a Withings WiFi Body Scale only to be dismayed by its inability to display your weight for your lounge TV? Well, today’s your lucky day (for a number of you, no less than), because the company has just announced that a Withings app is now available for Panasonic VIERA Connect-enabled TVs, that will can help you access the entire Health Dashboard from the relief of your couch, or recliner because the case is likely to be. Full press release is after the break.
Available now, users of the Withings Scale can access their Health Dashboard directly on their Panasonic VIERA Connect™- enabled VIERA® HDTVs
Paris, France – May 18, 2011- Withings is proud to announce that its Withings application is now available for download on Panasonic’s VIERA ConnectTM Market. First announced in January on the Consumer Electronics Show, your body scale and your television can now come together seamlessly with the partnership between Withings and Panasonic – a frontrunner in high definition, 3D and connected TV entertainment. By combining both innovative devices, users can now access their Withings health dashboard right on their Panasonic VIERA Connect-enabled VIERA® HDTV screen with the touch of a button turning your front room right into a virtual gym.
The WiFi Body Scale is a revolutionary product that transforms a regular bathroom scale into an automated weight tracking device for as much as 8 people. It wirelessly records a user’s bodyweight, lean & fat mass, and calculated body mass index (BMI) onto his/her own secure webpage and/or free Withings iPhone application, WiScale. Now, this knowledge dashboard could be easily accessed directly from the VIERA Connect™ menu page with only one button.
“Withings is worked up to take its monitoring system onto a brand new medium- your television,” said Co-Founding father of Withings Cedric Hutchings. “By partnering with Panasonic it has given us an opportunity to continue expanding and making it easier to facilitate the access of all of your information via your MAC, PC, mobile device and now your television.”
Panasonic’s VIERA Connect IPTV feature allows owners of VIERA ConnectTM-enabled 2011 VIERA HDTVs to enjoy internet content directly on their television with the rush of a button and without the necessity for a computer. VIERA Connect offers a powerful number of applications including expanded video streaming, and two-way interactive features from gaming to social networking, and fitness programs.
VIERA Connect is an important enhancement of Panasonic’s connected IPTV offerings available exclusively on its 2011 VIERA Connect-enabled HDTVs. VIERA Connect offers a sturdy number of applications including expanded video streaming, and two-way interactive features from gaming to social networking, and fitness programs. With VIERA Connect MarketTM, consumers personalize their VIERA Connect experience via a rich catalog of apps from third-party application developers
“The introduction of our first VIERA IPTVs in 2008 elevated the television’s place in the house to an entire new level for consumers and altered the style they have interaction with their TV,” said Panasonic Corporation of North America Vice chairman Merwan Mereby. “Collaborating with leading edge brands like Withings has enabled us to push that to even greater heights literally making the HDTV the center piece for home entertainment, connectivity and now fitness. With the addition of the Withings app to our VIERA Connect Market, your television can now play a key role to your fitness goals right from the relaxation of your front room.”
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About Withings:
Withings designs, develops, and industrializes connected objects. Withings is a French start-up established by three executives from technology and telecom industry. With a spotlight on innovation and design for everyday products, Withings introduced in September 2009 its first-of-its-kind WiFiBodyscale on the earth. Withings is an actor of the net of factors. Increasing capacities of an object by network resources allows accessing to infinite calculation and storage capacities without increasing the value. The object’s interfaces also are ported to devices like cell phones or computers, to learn from their resources. Withings makes internet connected objects. www.withings.com.
About Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company:
Based in Secaucus, N.J., Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company (PCEC), a market and technology leader in High Definition television, is a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic’s U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic is pledged to practice prudent, sustainable use of the earth’s natural resources and protect the environment in the course of the company’s Eco Ideas programs. Details about Panasonic products is offered at www.panasonic.com. Additional company information for journalists is on the market at www.panasonic.com/pressroom.
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