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Amazon announced on Thursday its entry into the fitness smartwatch market with a smart band known as Halo Band. Amazon Halo combines information gathered by a sensor-packed wristband with artificial intelligence tools to provide wearers with suggestions regarding their physical and mental health, the internet titan stated.
"Despite the rise in digital health services and devices over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding enhancement in population health in the US," Amazon Halo's principal medical officer Dr. Maulik Majmudar stated in a press release.
Talking about Halo’s features, Principal Medical Officer, Amazon Halo, Maulik Majmudar, mentioned, “We are using Amazon’s deep expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer customers a new way to discover, adopt, and maintain personalized wellness habits. Health is much more than just the number of steps you take in a day or how many hours you sleep. Amazon Halo combines the latest medical science, highly accurate data via the Halo Band sensors, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to offer a more comprehensive approach to improving your health and wellness.”
The e-commerce platform has launched a smart band with plenty of features that are remarkable. Apart from monitoring the basic health activities, the app may also detect your tone and determine how positive you sound and also 3D scans your body-muscle fat.
Not only the features, the Halo band seems totally different from other smartwatches that are already available. Any smart band that you pick up from the market will feature a display screen but the Halo band doesn't have a display screen. The Halo band and Halo service with all its uncommon features will be out there for a special price of $64.99 together with 6 months of Halo membership.
Though the Amazon Halo doesn't have a display like other smartwatches, it has sensors including the accelerometer, a heart rate monitor, a temperature sensor, an LED indicator mild, two microphones, and a button to show the microphones on or off, amongst different features.
Amazon with its smartwatch not only needs to let folks know concerning the number of steps they've taken in a day but additionally goals to take care of the person’s physical and emotional well beings. Its one of the crucial talked-about features is the Tone feature. “The innovative Tone feature makes use of machine studying to analyze power and positivity in a user’s voice so they can better perceive how they might sound to others, serving to improve their communication and relationships,” Amazon stated in a blog.
Aside from that, the band will monitor your body weight using a machine tool. Customers can measure their body fat percentage at home and the corporate claims that the outcomes are correct and more reliable than the home scales.
About the privacy and safety bit, Amazon has mentioned that “multiple layers of privacy and security are built into the service to keep data safe and in customers’ control.” Customers can download or delete their information at any time directly from the mobile app.
"Despite the rise in digital health services and devices over the last decade, we have not seen a corresponding enhancement in population health in the US," Amazon Halo's principal medical officer Dr. Maulik Majmudar stated in a press release.
Talking about Halo’s features, Principal Medical Officer, Amazon Halo, Maulik Majmudar, mentioned, “We are using Amazon’s deep expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning to offer customers a new way to discover, adopt, and maintain personalized wellness habits. Health is much more than just the number of steps you take in a day or how many hours you sleep. Amazon Halo combines the latest medical science, highly accurate data via the Halo Band sensors, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence to offer a more comprehensive approach to improving your health and wellness.”
The e-commerce platform has launched a smart band with plenty of features that are remarkable. Apart from monitoring the basic health activities, the app may also detect your tone and determine how positive you sound and also 3D scans your body-muscle fat.
Not only the features, the Halo band seems totally different from other smartwatches that are already available. Any smart band that you pick up from the market will feature a display screen but the Halo band doesn't have a display screen. The Halo band and Halo service with all its uncommon features will be out there for a special price of $64.99 together with 6 months of Halo membership.
Though the Amazon Halo doesn't have a display like other smartwatches, it has sensors including the accelerometer, a heart rate monitor, a temperature sensor, an LED indicator mild, two microphones, and a button to show the microphones on or off, amongst different features.
Amazon with its smartwatch not only needs to let folks know concerning the number of steps they've taken in a day but additionally goals to take care of the person’s physical and emotional well beings. Its one of the crucial talked-about features is the Tone feature. “The innovative Tone feature makes use of machine studying to analyze power and positivity in a user’s voice so they can better perceive how they might sound to others, serving to improve their communication and relationships,” Amazon stated in a blog.
Aside from that, the band will monitor your body weight using a machine tool. Customers can measure their body fat percentage at home and the corporate claims that the outcomes are correct and more reliable than the home scales.
About the privacy and safety bit, Amazon has mentioned that “multiple layers of privacy and security are built into the service to keep data safe and in customers’ control.” Customers can download or delete their information at any time directly from the mobile app.
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