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Skulpt raises $4.1M for smartphone-connected body fat and muscle tracking device

By Aditi Pai 09:53 am November 24, 2015

Skulpt, which has developed a smartphone-connected device that measures a user's body fat percentage and muscle quality, raised $4.1 million in a round led by Nautilus Venture Partners with participation from Caerus Venture Partners. This brings Skulpt's total funding to at least $5.7 million. The company plans to use the funds to expand into retail -- currently consumers are only able to...

Does Fitbit's WiFi-enabled Aria scale need FDA clearance?

By Brian Dolan 02:56 am March 12, 2013

In January 2012 Fitbit expanded beyond wearable activity tracking devices when it launched its Aria WiFi Smart Scale at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). While it offers much of the same functionality -- if not identical features -- to many of its peers, it is now one of the only connected weight scales that does not have FDA 510(k) clearance as a medical device. Perhaps the best known WiFi-...