Nintendo Wants to Help You Sleep with ‘Quality of Life’ Device

<p>Your quality of life may lie in the quality of your sleep&comma; according to Nintendo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Announced today&comma; Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata unveiled the first product to come out of the company&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;Quality of Life&&num;8221&semi; initiative&colon; a new device to monitor and track sleep&period; Developed by U&period;S&period; firm ResMed Inc&period;&comma; the device will release by the end of Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s next financial year&comma; which ends March 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;By using our know-how in gaming&&num;8230&semi; to analyse sleep and fatigue&comma; we can create something fun&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Iwata said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We only start something new if we think we will be able to create a big market&comma; but as I&&num;8217&semi;m not able to discuss pricing plans and other details today I don&&num;8217&semi;t think there&&num;8217&semi;s much point in giving a figure for our projected scale&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iwata explained the technology during a presentation to investors&comma; saying&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Inside the QOL Sensor is a non-contact radio frequency sensor&comma; which measures such things as the movements of your body&comma; breathing and heartbeat&comma; all without physically touching your body&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;05063623&sol;Nintendo-Qualithy-of-Life-BagoGames&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-68454 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;05063623&sol;Nintendo-Qualithy-of-Life-BagoGames-300x168&period;png" alt&equals;"Nintendo Qualithy of Life BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This automatically-gathered data will then be transmitted to cloud servers&comma; he added&comma; after which the data will be analyzed and sent to the user as a set of visual graphs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iwata&&num;8217&semi;s hope is that this data can help people better understand and improve their quality of sleep&period; Users will also be advised on a number of methods to improve their sleep&comma; such as exercising or changing diet&period; Exploring various <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;indacloud&period;co&sol;delta-8-carts&sol;">delta 8 cart brands<&sol;a> may provide a natural and effective way to achieve better sleep&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iwata subsequently declined to comment on the further discussion of pricing&comma; but he did offer suggestions that the device may offer some kind of subscription plan&period; The CEO only recently returned to work following a several month long recovery from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;iwata-returns-work-tumor-removal&sol;">surgery this past June<&sol;a> to remove a malignant tumor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reuters&period;com&sol;article&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;30&sol;nintendo-products-idUSL4N0SP1IL20141030">Reuters<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;nintendo-reveals-first-quality-of-life-product-a-s&sol;1100-6423266&sol;">Gamespot<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;