Amazon Working on Alexa Device That Monitors Sleep Apnea

Amazon Working on Alexa Device That Monitors Sleep Apnea

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Amazon is working on a new Alexa-driven device that can monitor sleep apnea, a disorder where breathing repeatedly stops and starts, Business Insider reported.


According to the report, the palm-sized device is reportedly designed to sit on a bedside table and use a millimeter-wave radar to sense your breathing.


Amazon's project is apparently being developed under the code name "Brahms" after the German composer of Lullaby.


The device resembles a "standing hexagonal pad connected to a metal wire base," the report noted.


If you snore loudly and feel tired even after a full night's sleep, you might have sleep apnea.


Snoring, feeling exhausted after sleep are few symptoms. Unsplash


In 2014, Japanese company Nintendo announced a "non-wearable" device that could track sleep via radio waves, reports The Verge. However, the device was never released.


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OnePlus has also announced a new concept phone that used mmWave radar to monitor breathing.


The concept smartphone changes colors as you breathe, and sports a motion-tracking radar tool.


According to the company, it is using a technology called Electronic Color, Material, and Finish (ECMF) for the OnePlus 8T concept phone.


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The radar could sense your breathing and change the back's color in time with it, "effectively making the phone a biofeedback device". (IANS)