There are times when everyone doesn't really want to know the truth about their weight. This, despite the rather stereotypical pictures that accompany this prototype design, applies to men as much as women, but what if you feel you should be weighing yourself but can't quite face seeing the truth in the cold light of LCD?
Well, there are three ways of delaying the inevitable according to Alice Wang, who created these concepts in an exploration of Asimov's First Law. Firstly, White Lies lets you adjust your weight according to how far back you stand on it. The closer you get to the display, the closer the truth about your weight gets.
Next up is Half Truth, which doesn't display your weight to you but to whoever you ask to read it for you. It might be worth picking a friend who lies to be kind rather than a (better) friend who will confront you with the brutal reality.
Lastly there's the geeky, almost social networking, option. Open Secret sends the results of your weigh-in to your chosen mobile phone. Useful for remote WeightWatchers, perhaps, although in that case I'd probably just cheat and get my one stone lighter boyfriend to hop on instead.
Of course, you could just not climb on the scales in the first place...
[via Elit Alice]
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