AI in Healthcare August 27, 2020
Trotting out a new digital health assistant this week, Amazon is emphasizing the wearable’s incorporation of AI to guide users toward some complicated goals.
These include reducing body mass index (BMI) and experiencing less stress by speaking more positively.
To the world, the device will look like a watchband minus the watch. That’s because the hardware faces the wearer’s wrist.
The band’s sleek circular appearance when it’s not being worn may explain why the Big Tech megaretailer is calling the product—a combo of app, sensor panel and wristband—the Halo.
In fact, the name refers to two parts. Halo itself is a mobile app while Halo Band is what you wear.
As for the sophisticated uses of AI, the Halo supplies...