Sept 28 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday introduced a contactless gadget that may monitor individuals’s sleep, together with updates to its lineup of voice-controlled units and e-readers.
The web retailer mentioned its $139.99 sleep gadget, referred to as Halo Rise, tracks room temperature, humidity and light-weight, plus the respiratory patterns of the particular person closest to it. The purpose is to offer perception to customers on why they could or could not really feel well-rested after they get up.
Like friends Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon has invested in health-tracking expertise for shoppers, at instances drawing regulatory scrutiny for delicate info it aimed to gather, like physique fats proportion by way of its health wristband referred to as Halo.
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Amazon has mentioned privateness is foundational to its work. The sleep system will encrypt well being information and has no digicam or microphone.
The retailer is exploring well being extra broadly as properly, asserting in July it could purchase major care supplier One Medical (ONEM.O) for $3.5 billion.
The Halo Rise just isn’t a medical system and never FDA-approved, Amazon mentioned.
Past the wager on well being, Amazon introduced at its digital units showcase a brand new Kindle e-reader with a pen for annotating books digitally. The corporate additionally introduced up to date variations of its in-home and in-car audio system with voice management and new web connectivity units, amongst different devices.
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Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru and Jeffrey Dastin in Palo Alto, Calif.; Modifying by Shounak Dasgupta, Matthew Lewis and Nick Zieminski
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