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Short Version: Yes, this is that scale that Tweets your weight. And yes, it’s actually pretty cool. Review So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I’m going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode. This glass scale features a body mass sensor complete with invisible electrodes as well as a backlit OLED readout. To start, you connect the scale to your computer via USB and assign your wireless hotspot. Then each time you hop on the scale you wait for the electrodes to sense your body fat (or if they can’t it just transmits your weight) and then you check your progress online. New users are “added” when they weigh themselves and show up as unknown users until you assign their measurements to an account. Because folks usually float among a few data points, your wife’s numbers won’t get mixed up with yours and the dog’s numbers will definitely not get mixed up wi...

Costa Rica election win for Chinchilla shows women's rise in Latin America Laura Chinchilla won the Costa Rica election Sunday. She'll be the country's first woman president, echoing a trend across Latin America where women are being voted into high-level political office in record numbers. By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer posted February 8, 2010 at 1:41 pm EST Rio de Janeiro — Jacqueline Campos, a lifelong resident of Rio de Janeiro, says she is not inspired by the ideas being floated ahead of presidential elections here later this year. But she still views the 2010 race as a landmark one: a woman has more than an outside chance of becoming president of Brazil. "We women were always expected to take care of the house, and that alone," she says. "Now we have much more to offer. We might lead the country." The election, slated for October, could see at least two women on the ballot. Dilma Rousseff, of the governing Workers' Party (PT), ...

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