Opinion: Halo Rise is a new device from Amazon designed to observe your sleep patterns and wake you up gently using light and sound. It is, almost inevitably, “creepy,” but it isn’t all sinister, writes navalang
Imagine yourself tucked snugly into bed. It’s autumn now, so the warmth of your duvet is welcome coziness. To add to the comfort, there’s a small, glowing device just next to your lamp — tracking your movements as you sleep.
The pitch for the Halo Rise is that it is a sleep tracker and alarm clock. It has no cameras or microphones, instead tracking your movements and breathing through sensors to give you insights into your sleep cycles. Come morning, the device will wake you with a soft light and an alarm or song of your choosing — even claiming to wait if it detects you are in deep sleep.
In Amazon’s marathon event, it announced a slew of other iterations on its smart home products: TVs, and an updated streaming box; a new Ring camera that can swivel and track things in 3D; floodlights and indoor cameras and swivel; and an update to its Astro robot that moves around a home and acts as a sentinel.
Platforms are integrated systems upon which product ecosystems are built. Amazon’s newest lineup not only has smart speakers but also music services that go along with it, not just smart TVs but also streaming apps for them. And those smart home devices — cameras, sensors, speakers, even robots — all work in tandem, with each other and with voice control.
It isn’t all sinister. All this tech can be genuinely helpful, not only making life easier or more convenient, but also in many cases making it more accessible too. If you have stubborn arthritis or mobility issues, asking Alexa to play a tune is a lot easier than getting up to grab a phone or prod at a stereo.
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