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Withings Thermo Temporal Thermometer Demo & Review
May 30, 2025
If you've ever had to wake up a baby or toddler to take their temperature in the middle of the night, you'll love the slick new Withings "Thermo" digital thermometer: you can take someone's temperature without actually touching their skin at all! It also has lots of smarts and works with a smartphone app that lets you store and analyze temperature readings over time (and share them with your doctor too). Review by parent and tech expert Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about thermometers so I
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know a lot have any babies in the house
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my kids are a little older but we still
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get issues with health and we still get
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issues with fevers and certainly when
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you have youngsters they just seem to
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run fevers fairly frequently it's just
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the body's way of getting rid of toxins
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and it's kind of alarming obviously and
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it's hard to take a temp the temperature
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of a child now there's more modern
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devices out there so you don't have to
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have that little glass thing with the
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metal on the end that had mercury inside
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that you have to stick under your tongue
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for a couple of minutes but what
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Withings has with what they call their
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thermo is by far the coolest and most
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modern of all so this is a Wi-Fi and
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bluetooth super-fast sensor system that
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reads what they call your temporal
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temperature so it turns out there's this
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big vein running up the side of your
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skull and then running across your
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forehead I didn't know this either in
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fact when I heard temporal thermometer I
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thought it takes temperature over time
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okay
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well that makes sense but it's actually
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the temporal vein anyway the way this
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works is that it actually has a ton of
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sensors and it takes about 4,000
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readings in just a couple of seconds and
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then it a ver ajiz the whole thing out
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and compensates for skin and all this
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sort of stuff and tells you temperature
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in about two seconds so super fast and
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here's what's really awesome about this
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is you don't have to actually touch the
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person's forehead so it turns out you
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can be within a half an inch now why is
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that important it's really really
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important and all of you parents of
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young people know this because you can
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take your child's temperature while
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they're asleep and you won't wake them
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up because you're not actually touching
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them so that's super cool let me show
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you by taking my temperature so it also
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pairs with the smart phone which is why
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I have my iPhone here but take little
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cover off and you see in there there's
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there's some sort of sensory doohickey
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in there I push the button and it's
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ready to take a temperature and then all
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I have to do is
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run it across my forehead and it gave me
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a little vibration feedback and it says
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that my temperature is ninety seven
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point three so I think I'll live I think
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I'm okay a little lower than normal but
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you know I'd rather have that than 101
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and then what's cool is that I can
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simply swipe up and down and I've preset
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the names of my children and myself when
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I find the name that I want and I know
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you can't see this I just push the
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button and it stores it but it also
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gives me the little color there's a
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little green light so the way this works
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is in the app you actually go ahead and
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you enter profile information about the
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different people in your family and it
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gives you color code based on that
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temperature for someone of that age so
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your colors are green everything's okay
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orange it's elevated but nothing to be
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super worried about and then red is you
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have an actual genuine fever so here you
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can see they have I'll show you this in
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close-up but here's my temperatures and
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notice there's a very attractive little
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baby that is not me that is the whiffing
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poster baby who seems to be very happy
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to have their temperature taken which is
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awesome and they got to say you know
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this does make it super easy it makes it
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easy for you to manage your own
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temperature because you got to have a
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log so if you are having hot flashes for
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example and you want to keep track of
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temperature over time it's super easy to
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just take your temperature even like
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every half hour every hour when you're
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feeling like you might have an elevated
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temperature and then it's all stored in
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the phone and then when you go to your
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doctor you can actually pull this data
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out and you can say well here we go over
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time here's my temperature doc so what
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the heck why do I get all hot at 8 p.m.
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every night and then the doctor can say
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well what are you watching on television
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now we're not going to go down that road
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ok we're back it's serious stuff so the
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winnings
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smart temporal thermometer it's actually
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quite cool and you can pick one up at
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the Apple store or online and they run
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about ninety nine ninety-five so about
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hundred dollars and you can also learn
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more at Withings comm so I think it's a
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pretty darn cool so I'll catch you in my
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next video
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you
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