- Hey guys, it's Craig.
This week, Amazon announced a new health
and wellness device, the Amazon Halo.
Let's take a look.
So a lot of companies have
created fitness tracking bands
and Amazon's now making one too,
but it looks like they're
taking a different approach
and bringing some unique features.
Looking at the Amazon Halo,
The first thing you'll notice
is that there's no screen.
The Halo is not meant to
distract you with a screen,
but instead focuses on using the band
along with the Halo app's
AI powered health features
to help users with actionable ways
to improve their health and well-being.
This band sounds like it's
bringing a lot to the table.
Before we talk about what
it's supposed to offer,
let's talk about what
the Halo band is not.
It's not a smartwatch.
You will not get
notifications and integrate
with your phone's apps.
It is not a device with a
built-in to ask questions,
or control your home.
It's strictly a health band
that sounds like it's
bringing some new things
that personally I've not seen before.
First, health features activity.
Halo uses an award point
system based on the intensity
and duration of an activity,
not like some other fitness
bands that just count steps.
With Halo, your weekly
goal is set to 150 points.
You earn points for
something like walking,
but more points for running and
other more intense workouts.
You also lose points for lack of activity.
You would lose one point for each hour
you don't move outside of sleeping.
At the end of the week,
you get to see how you did
and get some suggestions
on how to improve.
Next is sleep tracking.
As we've all heard, sleep is
important for good health.
I know I need more of it
and to be better about going
to bed earlier, but I'd
like to stay up late.
Well Halo is supposed to
help with your sleep health.
According to Amazon, Halo
uses motion, heart rate,
and temperature to help determine
the quality of your sleep.
With these readings, it can
determine how well you sleep
and time spent in the
various sleep cycles,
such as deep sleep, light
sleep, and REM sleep.
Each day, Halo gives you a sleep score
out of a hundred points,
along with the time spent
in each sleep cycle.
It'll provide suggestions on
how to improve your sleep.
I'm definitely curious
about my own sleeping habits
'cause to be honest,
they're not that great,
but I'd love to see some
numbers to get a better idea.
Next is body measurements and composition.
This sounds very interesting to me.
Halo is supposed to give you
accurate body measurements
that are twice as accurate
as at-home smart scales.
Amazon's saying that it's as accurate
as a doctor's measurements.
They're using an interesting approach
I've not heard of before
with your phone's camera,
computer vision, and machine learning.
Halo uses your smartphone's camera
to analyze body fat percentage.
It does this by creating a
3D body scan that is analyzed
in the cloud and then is
deleted after processing
and then from there, creates a 3D model
to track your progress.
Kinda crazy that you can do this from home
with a smart camera.
It is nice you don't have to have a doctor
you know is secretly judging you
because you put on some quarantine weight.
I'm curious and wanna use this,
but also a little nervous
to see the results of this.
Another feature that I've not
heard of before being measured
with other health
trackers is tone analysis.
The idea is that another
aspect of your health
is social well-being.
Halo's supposed to help
you communicate better
by analyzing what you
say throughout the day
and giving you a report of how you sounded
based on your mood and delivery
and how others may interpret your words,
complete with highlights
and moments from your day.
Now, with this information,
you would know how you come
across with those around you.
Are you really as positive
as you think you are?
Do you come off negative?
Is my wife right when she says
I have a shitty tone at times?
Let Halo be the impartial
jury to help you improve
with your relationships.
You can also mute the microphone
if you don't want your
words or tone analyzed.
Just hit mute when losing
your patience behind
that slow driver in front of
you and Halo never has to know.
Last, Halo has the labs feature.
Amazon says that labs are
scientifically backed challenges,
experiments, and workouts to
help build healthier habits.
These suggestions are meant
to improve different areas
of your health.
You can choose from
different health sources
for these lab challenges.
Now these different sources
include Harvard Health Publishing,
the American Heart
Association, Mayo Clinic,
Headspace, and many others.
It sounds like it's backed
by some heavy hitters
in the health industry.
To accomplish all this,
Halo has an accelerometer,
a temperature sensor, heart
rate monitor, microphones,
an LED, and a mute button to
turn on and off the microphone.
The Halo band is waterproof
and supposed to last up to seven days.
There are currently three color options.
There's the black fabric with Onyx sensor,
blush band with rose gold sensor,
and white band with silver sensor.
The Halo band and app uses a
subscription-based service,
but with the $64.99 early
access price for the Halo band,
you get six months of service included.
The regular price of the Halo
band is supposed to be $99.99.
I've not seen a monthly cost
of the subscription yet.
Amazon's also going to have
additional fabric bands
for the early access price of $19.99
and sports bands for $14.99.
You can check out the
link in the description
to sign up for the early
access if you want.
I'm definitely curious about the Halo band
and have already requested early access.
When I do get my hands on one,
I will follow up with the video.
I am curious how it looks
and this AI health app.
I do wanna check out all
these different features,
even though I'm scared of
what my 3D body fat model
will look like.
I have a feeling it's gonna be scary,
but maybe I'll lose weight
before it all comes in
and it won't be as scary.
Now, what are your
thoughts on the Halo band?
Will you be requesting early access?
Next, make sure to check
out this video over here
for another Amazon-related video.
I'll see you over there,
thanks for watching, bye.
