[wallflower]

I'm wary of uploading health data (however innocuous (weight) to the web). It's only the beginning; the web-connected eScale reminds me of these hypothetical "Huggies Smart Diapers":

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/images/found.jpg

Also, stumbled across this excellent archive of Wired's previous "Artifacts from the Future"

http://www.metafilter.com/73510/Artifacts-from-the-Future