Nintendo's Quality of Life to Measure Sleep Patterns

Nintendo have outlined one of the first projects within the upcoming Quality of Life platform.

The Japanese game maker has been keen to think outside the box, focusing on new technologies and improving consumers' lives. The first project will be aimed at sleep; an aspect of a daily routine that "significantly affects our health" and how "accumulated fatigue makes it difficult to maintain good health."

Nintendo feel that sleep and fatigue are difficult to visualise subjectively, so are developing a tool to monitor sleep conditions with ResMed.

The sensor would sit on a bedside table and it'll be designed to measure body movements, breathing and heartbeat by using radio frequencies. The collated data can then be used to improve the user's quality of life, by making suggestions for gradual improvement.

The platform, which will also come bundled with an app on smartphones and game systems, will launch in 2016.

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