Friday, October 31, 2014

Blog Week 9

Nintendo’s New Sleep Tracker

                Nintendo already having a monstrous gaming company they are attempting to break out from their roots and enter into the world of the health. They are currently in development of their “QOL sensor” which monitors the sleep habits of its users. The owner of Nintendo buy into the fact that the amount of sleep that a person get is directly connected to one’s health, which is why they have decided to move forward with this project.

                The QOL senor, set to be released in the year 2016, is a device that track that fatigue levels and the amount of sleep the user gets each night. Nintendo is developing it to not hassle the lives of the users by making it automatically track the sleep cycle without having to press a button or a having to wear something when they are sleeping. Once the device is done tracking the data it is sent to Nintendo’s cloud where is analyzed by the workers at Nintendo and the information is sent back to the user via smartphone app, gaming system, or other device. The analyzed information is connected with advice of the users could help improve their sleep habits such as increase excise or changing their diet.

                This new sleep monitoring device is one of the many ways that technology is being pushed towards a self-health awareness.


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