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I just read their website.
Its embarrassing but I have to say that honestly the centripetal force argument never occurred to me before. Rough calculations seem to indicate that a large man 100Kg should be almost half a pound heavier in the day time as he is at night. Kinda cool.
Now I am dying to get something big and stable enough to see if my home scale can pick it up.
Don't forget to adjust your calculations for not being on the equator, and to take into account that 'nighttime' is not equivalent to 'the Sun pulls you directly towards the center of the Earth'. Both tend to make the effect smaller.