My new smart scale bricked itself after a firmware update last Tuesday.
It just shows a blank screen now, and the company's support told me to wait for another update, which is pretty useless when you need to weigh something.
Ugh, this is a pet peeve of mine. Bricked means NO recovery, zero life, like a BIOS corruption. Broken could just be a bad screen or a dead battery, something you can maybe fix. People throw "bricked" around way too much.