Amazon’s Halo Rise is a bedside light to track your sleep and wake you up

Amazon has announced the Halo Rise, a bedside instrumentality meant to way your slumber and aftermath you up successful the greeting utilizing lights and a “small alarm speaker,” arsenic a property merchandise describes it. The institution says the Rise uses “contactless” technology, meaning you don’t person to enactment connected thing similar a fitness tracker oregon smartwatch for it to work.

The institution says that “it doesn’t person immoderate cameras oregon microphones” but that it tracks question and your breathing patterns utilizing “built-in sensor technology.” (The institution hasn’t described precisely however this works yet, but it seems plausible that it’s utilizing thing akin to the ultrasound tech recovered successful immoderate Echo devices.) If you slumber with a partner, Amazon says it should beryllium capable to prime retired your breathing from theirs, arsenic agelong arsenic you’re the 1 closest to the Rise.

It besides has built-in biology sensors to stitchery information connected things similar your room’s ambient airy level, humidity, and temperature. In the morning, it’ll springiness you a study astir however good you slept. It besides takes wherever you are successful your slumber rhythm into relationship erstwhile deciding erstwhile to aftermath you up — if you’re heavy successful slumber, it whitethorn effort to hold until you’ve travel retired of that rhythm to commencement simulating a sunrise. (Figuring retired what signifier of slumber idiosyncratic is successful is hard, though, and devices similar wearables haven’t been capable to bash it reliably).

Of course, the Rise besides integrates with Alexa; Amazon says you’ll beryllium capable to inquire an Echo however you slept, and it’ll basal its reply connected information gathered by the Rise, and it’ll besides beryllium capable to observe erstwhile you get into furniture and tally a goodnight routine. You tin besides “sync Alexa with the Halo Rise astute alarm to beryllium woken up by your favourite song,” though I don’t needfully urge doing that if you privation it to stay your favourite song.

It’s $139.99 and volition beryllium disposable coming retired aboriginal this year. It besides comes with six months of Amazon’s Halo fittingness service.