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Retail price will be at $499 (it's now available at $299 for a few more weeks).

Now, for the measurements, we have done a lot of testing and while our measurements are more accurate than regular scales, they are not quite as accurate as DEXA/DXA scans which are able to measure your bone density via low intensity x-rays. However, we are pretty much as good as hydrostatic weighing which is pretty damn close in accuracy and measuring the relative change over time. That's really where most regular scales fall short. Also of course you'll be able to use ShapeScale daily which is something hard to accomplish with DEXA scans and hydrostatic weigh-ins.

Also, what is unique about ShapeScale is our ability to visualize areas of where exactly you have been losing fat and gaining muscle using depth sensing and software algorithms.

You'll also get all your girth measures and volumetric change, which is especially important if you are trying to lose weight in certain areas or gaining muscle in others.

In the future, we hope to do more cool things around photorealistic scans such as measuring your muscle definition using computer vision. However, that will require more data and time to accomplish.

Hope that makes sense! 👍

Hey that's a good question. You'd definitely get a refund on the full lifetime subscription if you return yours within the first 45 days after it arrives. Wouldn't want to leave you with that dent in your pocket. Now, if we see some abuse of people ordering a ShapeScale every 45 days then that's a different story of course.

Was there a question here? We get it there are other use cases, but a lot of them are either niche or they wouldn't mind to pay a few hundred or in the case of Hollywood even thousand dollars more to get the best possible quality. It'd be a complete different approach. We wanted to be ShapeScale to become as affordable yet also useful as possible. On the consumer side we do hope we can enable other use cases beyond just fitness and health. But fitness works relatively easy on a small scale. You don't need to care about the fact that there are not a hundred million other users around when you get your body composition data, but an e-commerce store wanting to integrate a virtual fitting preview function would want to see some good user data first.

BTW here's a scan of me from last year: https://sketchfab.com/models/654082dc33db47b8bc03392ef64b4fc8 Let me see if I can upload a more recent one soon. Sample scans on the website is definitely a good idea, and it was something we tried but increased the loading heavily. But perhaps we could create a separate page for what it's worth! BTW, Hope we can prove you wrong on the Juicero 2.0 comment. 😉

VERY! I've been counting the days. The cynic in me sometimes wishes he'd be for real.

There's still plenty of things you can use a ShapeScale for.

For one, since you'll be able to visualize your body in photorealistic 3D (for example here is a scan of /u/awayenberg - http://shpe.us/alexscan), you will be able to see how your skin changes over time. This is particularly interesting for measuring aging over time [and also how your lifestyle affects your biological age], effects of skin products, and of course you also get to save historic 3D images of yourself, which you may use in VR and virtual fitting rooms.

You'll also be able to notice little things since you get a 360 view of yourself. Quite a few actually noticed their slouching posture after reviewing their scan.

Some also told us they'd like to 3D print themselves or keep track of how their children grow up. Nearly every week we get thrown new use cases at us, but we first need to focus on getting the fitness part right.