Amazon Halo: A New Fitness App and Service Application by Amazon

Amazon has launched a new fitness band including a service application called Amazon Halo. This watch is very unique from other fitness watches like Fitbit and Apple watches. Surprisingly, the Amazon Halo band doesn’t have a screen. It only comes with a bunch of sensors that monitor everything and the details can be viewed through an app.

Amazon Halo Band

As mentioned earlier, the Halo band is just a band without a screen. It does have multiple sensors installed at the bottom. They include a temperature sensor, an accelerometer, heart rate monitor, an LED light indicator and two microphones and a button to turn them on or off. This watch is also water-resistant. It is said to be fully charged only in 90mins and give a battery life of u to 7 days straight. Halo comes in three fabric band colors and 15 additional colors that can be bought separately.

Amazon Halo Service Application

There is not much to talk about the band. The magnificent features of the app is what interests us more. It helps the users to concentrate more on their health and well-being. This app is available on both Android and iOS. Apart from tracking steps and sleeping patterns, this application provides a lot more. It has a section called Labs where it provides challenges, workouts and ways to lead a healthier lifestyle. For this to happen, it has collaborated with Headspace, the Mayo Clinic, the American Heart Association, Harvard Health Publishing and many others.

There’s a jaw-dropping feature called Tone named by Amazon. Tone is all about your emotional and social behavior. According to Amazon, our voice says a lot about us. Tone can identify in what mood we are in depending upon our voice tone. It uses machine learning to make this possible. It can easily recognize if you are stressed, happy, relaxed or excited all by listening to your tone. You can turn off the microphone anytime you want for privacy purposes. This feature is best useful for native English speakers as it can be easily analyzed. Amazon promises the privacy saying that the program is carried out only on the device and not stored to cloud.

One more exciting thing about Halo is that it can calculate our body fat percentage. This is done is a completely unique way. All you need to have is a phone and some privacy. For Halo to calculate your BFP, you’ll need to wear minimal and tight clothes. It is also necessary that you are in front of good lighting. The Halo app will help you position yourself properly and will take four different body scan images. It then analyzes it with pixel-level accuracy and builds 3D images of your body. It then calculates your BFP and also informs you how your body would look if it had lower or higher BFP.  

Conclusion

The Amazon Halo is surely impressive with all its extraordinary and unique features. It maintains your health records and observes your exercise patterns and recommends you to lead a healthier lifestyle. From Tone to BFP, this new production by Amazon is surely unique and magnificent. As of now, U.S. citizens have an early access to Halo at a price of $64 which includes the band and a 6-months membership. For everyone who wants to get up and lead a healthier lifestyle, the Amazon Halo is definitely worth a shot.