"The downside of this is that the visible/wear surface would have to be permanently bonded to the underlayment/padding, and for placement or removal would have to be flexible. So carpeting and linoleum, but no hardwoods."
"Theranos was a blatant fraud that didn't do anything. Now, if you want to be Steve Jobs and change the keyboard layout people have used for a century? Just spend half a billion in marketing over a decade and you'll be set with a whopping sub-25% of the market, with your entire customer base being people who blindly use your system and proclaim it as the best ever despite no perceivable useful difference while costing twice as much."
"You could also record a visual of the bird in position at the moment of weighing, and have software that can extrapolate from the point of contact. Perhaps marginally less accurate, but much simpler hardware."