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take your clothes off step onto the scale and spin for the cameras that's the pitch for The Naked labs body scanner a $1400 smart mirror and scale available right now along with measuring your weight and body fat percentage the 3d depth sensing camera is an Intel processor in the mirror capture your physical form from every angle which lets you scrutinize your love handles on your phone or compare them with last month's skin now maybe that all sounds terrifying but it's right in line with for today's data-driven smart homes seems to be headed and as our team tested the scanner out here at the scene at smart home we came away with some strikingly different conclusions so the naked mirror not gonna lab broke my spirit a little bit when I stepped on it the first time I thought I felt pretty good about my body and my self-image but when I stood on the scale and let the mirror take all these 3d renderings of me and then saw myself like looking like a big pile of mercury I could see every lump and bump and that was distressing it's one thing to look in a static mirror when you're at home and check out your butt in the mirror see how it looks in those jeans but it's another thing to have this like very intimate portrait of yourself in your pocket so I probably wouldn't pay for the naked mirror but I actually kind of appreciated I've been trying to eat better and work out and get in better shape and when I first started to do that an ordinary scale was showing me progress I was losing weight but after a few months of that I stopped losing weight and then it was tough to see if what I was doing was having any effect the naked mirrored gives you those kind of details they're able to see the body image you're able to see your fat percentage you're able to see all of this stuff that could point to the fact that okay no the pounds aren't coming off like they used to but you're getting a little bit more toned the fat percentage is going down or no no you really are plateauing in every way so you need to workout a little bit more I think it could be helpful and I'd use it if it was around though I'm not super sure it's worth the money for what it's worth the scanner worked as advertised giving all of us precise accurate measurements and frightening ly realistic scans with only the occasional Bluetooth glitch naked labs stores your sensitive data in the cloud encrypted and decoupled from identifiable personal data of course even the faces are a bit blurry to help reassure that no one could identify you if that cloud ever sprang a leak now I doubt that that's enough for some folks to feel comfortable at this thing but I also see lots of potential naked labs wants to let you sync your scans with personal trainers medical professionals and even clothing manufacturers to help put that personal data to use it's a tall order but if the company can establish trust with consumers I can see people buying in still it's very early and very expensive at 1,400 dollars the price will undoubtedly need to come down in order for this tech to make its way into the mainstream but as much as people obsess over fitness and physique this is a category and a company worth keeping an eye on