Interesting… but also creepy.
“Amazon is getting into the health gadget market with a new fitness band and subscription service called Halo.
“Unlike the Apple Watch or even most basic Fitbits, the Amazon Halo Band doesn’t have a screen. The app that goes along with it comes with the usual set of fitness tracking features along with two innovative — and potentially troubling — ideas: using your camera to create 3D scans for body fat and listening for the emotion in your voice.
“The Halo Band will cost $99.99 and the service (which is required for Halo’s more advanced features) costs $3.99 per month.
“Amazon is launching it as an invite-only early access program today with an introductory price of $64.99 that includes six months of the service for free. The Halo service is a separate product that isn’t part of Amazon Prime.”
Read more at The Verge
