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- Luna launches Luna Band at CES.
- It is a hands-free health tracker.
- Users log information without opening the Luna app.
Move over smartwatches, there’s a new wearable device for health tracking coming — and you won’t need to open an app to use it. Health technology company Luna introduced its Luna Band at CES in Las Vegas on Monday.
The smart band, which tracks a standard set of health metrics, offers voice-based health guidance, powered by Luna’s AI engine, so wearers can record health information without opening the app. Recording health information hands-free may seem trivial, but manually logging every mood or tagging food information in an app quickly becomes monotonous, tiring, and hinders consistent use and accurate data capture.
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“The Luna Band represents a new category of personal health technology that focuses not on displaying data, but on providing timely, actionable guidance,” Luna writes in its press release.
Screenless and hands-free
The band is screen-free and provides health information – such as sleep, activity, stress, nutrition and mood – via the user’s earbuds or compatible device.
The band is hands-free, using voice-based interactions without the need to open the Luna app. Luna’s dynamic logging allows users to log meals, symptoms and mood, as well as interrogate the AI for health-related questions, without needing to open the app.
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These days, more wearable devices are working without the aid of their compatible apps. Other examples of wearables becoming truly hands-free can be seen in two recently launched smart rings, pebble index 01 and this stream ringEach device is activated by pressing a button on the ring, Then, the ring starts recording the information the user is noting in the device’s corresponding app (without even opening it),
The band’s sensing platform measures sleep and activity as well as micro-recovery, circadian fluctuations, and stress signals. It is designed with an optical sensor array and a high-fidelity, six-axis internal measurement unit. Luna says the accuracy of the data capture makes daily health guidance delivered through a user’s earbuds or phone more informative.
LifeOS syncs with Apple Health, Google Fit, Clue, Kindbody, and other health apps.
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The Luna Band comes in four colors: hot red, orange, purple, and green. Thankfully, the Luna Band doesn’t come with any subscription. We don’t know yet what the price and availability will be.
