Withings is again at CES 2026 with one other sensible scale: the $599.95 Physique Scan 2. This time, it’s bought a good tighter concentrate on cardiovascular and metabolic well being.
The Physique Scan 2 comprises eight electrodes on the size itself, in addition to an extra 4 electrodes inside a retractable deal with. That is much like the original Body Scan’s design. Including the deal with makes the Physique Scan lineup extra correct than most sensible scales as a result of it incorporates upper-body knowledge. Typical sensible scales solely have foot electrodes, and solely use lower-body data to extrapolate complete physique composition.
The most important distinction with the Physique Scan 2 is it will increase the variety of biomarkers tracked. Along with weight, coronary heart price, and general physique composition, the size now provides a 90-second “longevity evaluation.” The evaluation consists of over 60 biomarkers which are damaged down into roughly 5 classes: coronary heart pumping efficiency and coronary heart electrical exercise, hypertension threat, artery well being, mobile well being and metabolic effectivity, and glycemic regulation.
“We’ve been constructing this imaginative and prescient of including a variety of highly effective biomarkers that may be measured each day once you step on the size,” says Antoine Joussain, Withings’ director of product administration, gadgets.
Since monitoring over 60 metrics can get unwieldy, customers will even get a extra digestible Well being Trajectory rating that visualizes their healthspan — or what number of years of fine well being an individual can count on.
“We need to preserve it easy on a excessive stage, so you’ve gotten clear indicators which you can comply with on a each day, weekly, or month-to-month foundation. The remainder of the 60 biomarkers, you possibly can in fact overview them, however we’ll do all of the interpretation for you,” Joussain says.
This isn’t an entirely new idea. Whoop launched an analogous rating in 2025 with its Whoop 5.0 tracker utilizing cardiovascular, sleep, and exercise metrics to estimate how effectively an individual is growing older. Oura additionally launched metrics for evaluating cardiovascular age and chronological age in 2024. Each corporations additionally added on the power to get blood assessments to trace metabolic well being metrics final 12 months.
However one intriguing factor about Withings’ method with the Physique Scan 2 is it’s monitoring metabolic well being noninvasively. As an alternative of blood assessments, the size makes use of one thing known as bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) and foot sweat. Sure, foot sweat.
“The purpose is to stimulate the sweat glands which are inside your toes with a secure, tiny present. We measure the utmost exercise response from these sweat glands. If the exercise is excessive, to simplify a bit, it means your glands are wholesome and if not, they’re not wholesome,” Joussain explains. He notes that diabetes may cause foot problems, and that Withings has seen correlating proof from its customers who’ve poorly managed diabetes.
As for BIS, the size sends currents at totally different frequencies to judge how effectively cell membranes are working as one other indicator for metabolic well being. The advantage of these noninvasive strategies, he says, is that they are often taken extra regularly and simply than blood assessments. That stated, these metabolic options aren’t meant to be diagnostic — they’re envisioned extra as early warning flags.
The advantage of gathering all this knowledge on a wise scale, Joussain says, is it’s a handy system many individuals have already got and are accustomed to utilizing often. That, he says, makes it the best gadget for taking a number of long-term well being measurements directly. However whereas there’s logic to this method, there are challenges too. Scales will be emotionally loaded devices that some folks keep away from to forestall physique dysmorphia or disordered consuming when getting down to enhance their general well being.
It’s an issue Withings is conscious of. To that finish, Joussain factors to an Eyes-Closed Mode, wherein all measurements are changed with emoji on the size however are nonetheless recorded within the Withings app. Lengthy-term, he says the hope is to reenvision the size as a “longevity station” that measures general well being — not simply weight.
One other hurdle is regulatory oversight. For the Physique Scan 2, two options would require FDA clearance: hypertension threat notifications and the six-lead EKG for atrial fibrillation detection. In comparison with different well being tech corporations, Withings has usually opted for FDA clearance when doable, to blended outcomes. Its ScanWatch smartwatch, for example, took nearly two years to make it by means of the FDA clearance course of. To launch its U-Scan urinalysis lab, Withings opted to launch system as a wellness gadget as an alternative of in search of clearance. The Move ECG smartwatch was introduced in 2019, however has but to hit the US market.
Right here, Joussain is extra optimistic. He says Withings is pursuing a “new sort of certification” that can enable the corporate to get its gadgets on cabinets extra shortly with out sacrificing scientific analysis. The size will even be GDPR and HIPAA compliant, and embrace ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 privateness and safety certifications. If all goes in accordance with plan, the Physique Scan 2 needs to be out there someday in Q2 2026.
