Wi-Fi in your scale. Do you want to send your weight to the Cloud? April 23, 2012— -- I don't like stepping on the scale. That weight readout always reminds me how I should be eating less dessert ...

A scale is a low-tech, low-maintenance gadget. You step on it once per day (or less, in my case), read your weight, and leave it to spend the majority of its time sitting idly on the bathroom floor.

After hands-on testing and in-depth analysis of nine smart scales, we recommend the Withings Smart Body Analyzer over the popular Fitbit Aria as the overall best scale. Our best-value pick for those ...