Contactless Amazon Halo Rise Tracks Your Sleep From a Bedside Table
Interested in tracking your sleep, but can't stand wearing something on your wrist to bed?
You may be interested in the $139.99 Amazon Halo Rise contactless sleep tracker. Announced Wednesday, the Halo Rise sits on your bedside table, using low-energy sensor and machine learning technology to automatically track your slumber. When you wake up, the Halo app shows the amount of time you spent in each sleep stage (REM, light, and deep) the previous night, and gives you a sleep score to help you quickly gauge the duration and quality of your shut-eye.
The Halo Rise is slated to start shipping later this year. If you're interested, you can sign up to be notified(Opens in a new window) when it's available.
Though Amazon calls this device the "first of its kind," the company seemingly drew inspiration from the Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen), released last year, which uses a motion sensor to contactlessly track your sleep from the bedside table.
The Halo Rise works similarly, using sensors to track micromovements, like your chest rising and falling as you breathe. It then uses machine learning technology to translate that data into sleep stages.
The device has no camera or microphone, and Amazon tells me it has only been trained to analyze breathing patterns and sleep stages, not other activities that might be going on in the room. There is an option to put the Halo Rise into standby mode, which disables the sensor technology used for sleep tracking.
The Halo Rise will only track the sleep of the person closest to the device. Amazon says it extensively tested and validated the technology in many different settings—with various types of bedding, single and dual sleepers, pets in the bed, people young and old, and a range of body
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