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jerlam 3 days ago

Amazon Halo did something similar five years ago:

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/the-science-behind-th...

A recent clinical study, whose results haven’t been published yet, determined that [Amazon Halo's] Body is nearly twice as accurate as smart scales in measuring BFP when using DXA as the ground truth.

Some discussion on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295779

gavinray 3 days ago | parent [-]

I got 2 DEXA scans in the same day, within 1hr of each other, from 2 different machine manufacturers (Hologic Horizon, GE Lunar)

One said I was 5% bodyfat, the other said I was 11% bodyfat:

https://old.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/1u6ok9b/sam...

Take that for what you will...