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A new tool to help you understand and improve your social wellbeing [blog.aboutamazon.com]Amazon Halo, for dads:
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 27, 2020
- Activity: Need to exercise more but don't want to go to the gym or become a fitness buff
- Sleep: Need to be convinced two scotches before bed is a bad idea
- Body: Getting a beer gut but won't fully admit it
- Tone: Needs to quit yelling at the kids
Amazon's new fitness band uses AI to track your emotional mood by listening to your voice. Would LOVE to see any studies on the reliability of this because I simply do not believe it works accept in the crudest sense. https://t.co/zPjZkyOuJR pic.twitter.com/4Hnh880ydA
— James Vincent (@jjvincent) August 27, 2020
‘Track emotional tone’ sounds straight out of the voight kampff test from Blade Runner. no fcking thanks, Jeff. https://t.co/j3ZGSinvJJ
— John (@pippedtodeath) August 27, 2020
I’m having trouble understanding who they mean by “customer” here. Do they mean “user” or are they envisioning, like, an office worker ending a conference call and then lashing out at a client?https://t.co/lfMUxRe0nC pic.twitter.com/0bPGKYqcdn
— Brian Fung (@b_fung) August 27, 2020
We sense your emotional tone has become tense today, which of these calming teas would you like shipped to your home with same day Prime delivery? https://t.co/dP6OjoBM5j
— Stephen Hall (@hallstephenj) August 27, 2020
Uh Amazon Halo is a LOT. Uses smartphone camera to make a 3D model of your body and measure body fat %. Uses fitness band mic to listen to the tone of your voice and tell you if you’re being a jerk.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 27, 2020
Oh and it’s also a normal (screenless) fitness tracker https://t.co/MxzuEBC7sc pic.twitter.com/sntWg9Ka2U
The new Amazon Halo is a wonderful way for Amazon to enter into a very crowded and competitive market.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) August 27, 2020
It has features expected fitness band.
But the amazing aspect is the emotional tonality of your voice throughout the day.
A powerful window into mental health. https://t.co/acjPJmTlz4 pic.twitter.com/ebntyAmkGR
Excited to discover today that Amazon's new Halo fitness band would like to listen to your conversations AND take photos of you in your underwear, which feels like something people will absolutely be 100% happy with https://t.co/PQygATBZKa
— Chris Davies (@c_davies) August 27, 2020
My main concern with Amazon Halo isn't the voice tone thing (mostly I find that weird), it's the ability to move a slider on an accurate 3D image of your body to decrease body fat.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 27, 2020
Me: Sometimes I feel like smartphones know too much about us.
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) August 27, 2020
Amazon: Our app creates a 3D scan of your body and then uses advanded AI to determine exactly how much what percentage of your body is fat.https://t.co/p8C8eYvuWd pic.twitter.com/HCT5L9eqMe
Amazon would like to analyze "energy and positivity in a customer's voice" to help us improve our mental well being.
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) August 27, 2020
I'm all for things that can nudge us to change our behavior, but maybe not this? https://t.co/yWpCs67y65 pic.twitter.com/gevtk0Cu4y
note to amazon, everyone has an accent. yes, even jeff bezos https://t.co/xbMmJVdeBZ pic.twitter.com/12FU6xx3x2
— sam byford (@345triangle) August 27, 2020
wonder how many people are going to pay to be tone policed by their wrist computer https://t.co/rdz2SMakSC
— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) August 27, 2020
Amazon Takes on Health Tracking … with a Device Called Halo - https://t.co/A6Je22DsoB pic.twitter.com/9zTXSijpHN
— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) August 27, 2020
I usually call them all unwearables, but this is fascinating and more than a little scary: Amazon Halo wearable tracks activity, body fat, emotions https://t.co/uWRKJzVQvi
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) August 27, 2020
Here's Amazon's first significant move into wearables (which Gartner estimates will be a $52 billion market this year.) It's called Amazon Halo and tracks activity, body fat and emotions...https://t.co/9C6srRODW2 #amazon #wearables #digitalhealth #healthtech
— John Nosta (@JohnNosta) August 27, 2020
Is it possible to make something that alerts you when one of these surveillance devices is nearby? Or fucks with them? https://t.co/sSu1Y5gp4d
— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) August 27, 2020
Amazon, I'll save you some time: I'm always anxious.https://t.co/Gbypk87mP5
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) August 27, 2020
Its here. More on this later: Amazon Halo wearable tracks activity, body fat, emotions https://t.co/P7Tpjan7XX
— Amir Kalali, MD (@akalali) August 27, 2020
NEW: Amazon introduces a wristband for health and fitness tracking called Halo, alongside a subscription service and smartphone app.https://t.co/b9GGZ3ZL79
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) August 27, 2020
Amazon Halo #wearable tracks activity, body fat, emotions https://t.co/rBo2znGIju - tks @chrissyfarr - let’s see how far this gets and how well it sticks - I will extend my wrist for this one just to try.. #DigitalHealth
— Eugene Borukhovich (@HealthEugene) August 27, 2020
@amazon enters the Wearables Market in a big way.
— The Wearables Expert ™ ? joao@digitalsalutem.com (@WearablesExpert) August 27, 2020
Read here ? https://t.co/pDPNWERYKf
Cc: @HealthcareLdr @IrmaRaste @EvanKirstel @AkwyZ @antgrasso @avrohomg @dinisguarda @enricomolinari @rwang0 @ShafiAhmed5 @adamsconsulting #wearables #tech #fitness #healthcare #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/cNfFW1RCkk
Sorry but I’m looking for a fitness belt that tracks my sitting activity and my emotion fat. https://t.co/RqN1X5T9uN
— Robert McNees (@mcnees) August 27, 2020
This whole paragraph. https://t.co/IAdUC3glSt pic.twitter.com/3Dan8sueDA
— Michael Zimmer (@michaelzimmer) August 27, 2020
#Amazon enters the #wearables market with Halo: https://t.co/1hDo76kwZD? #fitness #wellness
— Janice McCallum (@janicemccallum) August 27, 2020
Just me or is this a kind of terrifying product review? https://t.co/FSc6JbnpKX https://t.co/BmwPWTcOY9
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) August 27, 2020
So, so, SO many red flags with the Amazon Halo. But this really set me off. EVERYONE. HAS. "AN ACCENT." https://t.co/DeXTLozlBj pic.twitter.com/j1DZYbVaVA
— Sebastian Modak (@sebmodak) August 27, 2020
New 3D body scanner and "emotion monitor" from the company that complied with at least 2000 law enforcement requests for intimate recordings of private conversations and domestic activities taken surreptitiously by Alexa-enabled devices.https://t.co/2NVOYWHUNF
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) August 27, 2020
Please someone write about how the Amazon Halo is an dangerous tool that perpetuates diet culture and fatphobia in the name of "health." I just can't believe you can take pictures of yourself in yr underwear and MAKE YOURSELF LOOK THINNER WITH A SCROLL BARhttps://t.co/2274hiZmtA
— Kate McKean (@kate_mckean) August 27, 2020
I wrote last fall about Amazon's evolution into a surveillance company—the "everywhere store." https://t.co/HyQoxLmcAQ
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) August 27, 2020
Today it announced a fitness band that makes 3D scans of your body and monitors your tone of voice: https://t.co/ryxJtyIVw4
Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice https://t.co/CEY3t5uPBo pic.twitter.com/4qKxyjtDWN
— The Verge (@verge) August 27, 2020
This seems a lot like the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man.” Bezos is just sizing folks up to see who else he can sacrifice to his machines. https://t.co/Mh4ViItzAx
— Doomscrolling Eternal (@hypervisible) August 27, 2020
Back in 2016 I asked Bezos if Amazon was exploring wearables and he said they were "super interesting" but still in infancy and when I asked again he said “Sounds like you want a product job” which is certainly one way to deflect, and now there's…this https://t.co/IgShTTFREh
— Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) August 27, 2020
AmazonからフィットネスバンドHaloが登場。
— Go Ando / THE GUILD (@goando) August 27, 2020
デバイスはディスプレイを持たないセンサーデバイス。バンドが$100で月額$4のオプションサービス。
Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voicehttps://t.co/94Jecq2nPf pic.twitter.com/EUCmzXHoJc
Amazon is getting into the health and fitness tracking game with a new wearable band and app and uh…. there are some weird things right off the bat:https://t.co/Hu1JyIiEph
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) August 27, 2020
Amazon Halo is a new fitness tracker by Amazon that monitors the emotions in your voice.
— Daniel Bostic (@debostic) August 27, 2020
We are rapidly spiraling into 1984 territory.https://t.co/g9u8C7Qu5O
Exciting to see Amazon get into the fitness & health space! https://t.co/XJKRSPpYAz
— David Sontag (@david_sontag) August 27, 2020
Amazon would like to analyze "energy and positivity in a customer's voice" to help us improve our mental well being.
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) August 27, 2020
I'm all for things that can nudge us to change our behavior, but maybe not this? https://t.co/yWpCs67y65 pic.twitter.com/gevtk0Cu4y
Amazon is getting into the health wearable game
— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) August 27, 2020
their smart band looks a lot like a @whoop https://t.co/rzfdaZgTwN pic.twitter.com/0HpZUH6kwc
$AMZN More on Amazon's Halo wearable band/health monitor. https://t.co/V6NoqVfuQC pic.twitter.com/zWP8k3bU3U
— North Bluff Capital (@bluff_capital) August 27, 2020
$AMZN Halo
— Dror Poleg (@drorpoleg) August 27, 2020
Step 1: Wearable device
Step 2: Offer healthcare/insurance solutions based on data
It's coming. It's inevitable.https://t.co/94wEeGPRLy
Amazon debuts Halo smart health subscription service and Halo Band wearable activity tracker https://t.co/1k6z7T6dgd by @etherington @techcrunch
— Scott Brinker (@chiefmartec) August 27, 2020
"We noticed your heart rate goes up every time you talk about martech, Scott..."
Amazon completing their surveillance of the text of the Fourth Amendment
— Andrew G. Ferguson (@ProfFerguson) August 28, 2020
Persons (Halo)
Houses (Ring)
Papers (Kindle)
Effects (Alexa)
Not to mention the privacies of life ... #surveillance https://t.co/KUIpafuBoG
아마존이, 손목에 착용하여 체지방비율, 활동량, 수면 상태 등을 측정할 수 있는 웨어러블 기기 '헤일로(Halo)'를 발표하여 애플, 핏빗과 경쟁에 나서… https://t.co/3RrhVB1WHW pic.twitter.com/ddNpQFPb1X
— H. Kim (@metavital) August 27, 2020
Hot off the heels of Amazon announcing Halo... https://t.co/Zdnptl8hj0
— Nikita S (@singareddynm) August 27, 2020
This just in: we’ve teamed up with #AmazonHalo to help provide a more complete way for our customers to measure, understand and improve their #health — coming soon to the John Hancock Vitality Program. https://t.co/T8GZ1CvV24
— John Hancock (@johnhancockusa) August 27, 2020
Amazonがウエアラブル活動量計「Halo」をサブスクサービスとアプリと一緒に発表。声のトーンで情動状態を測ったり、体型と体脂肪を測ったりもできるそう。
— 今村咲 (@saki_imamura) August 27, 2020
デバイスと6ヶ月のサブスクで64.99ドル。その後は月々3.99ドルだって。
どうなんだろ？https://t.co/OGzxxDLvOJ pic.twitter.com/CEI9VTD7QR
Amazon’s Halo has a feature "that tracks a user’s emotional state by listening to the tone of their voice"https://t.co/XBKYUdacIC pic.twitter.com/FRrClaJowS
— Mike Calia (@Michael_Calia) August 27, 2020
Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit — tracks activity, body fat, emotions https://t.co/MVhGtmArn6 #wearables #digitalhealth #mentalhealth
— Digital.Health (@DigitalDHealth) August 27, 2020
“Tone is an optional feature that listens to the user's voice throughout the day and analyzes that information to present a picture of how they felt -- for instance, showing times they were feeling energetic, hopeful, or hesitant.” https://t.co/CWyeBSWO4M
— Caroline Haskins (@carolineha_) August 27, 2020
An Amazon device that:
— Jonty Wareing (@jonty) August 27, 2020
• You wear 24/7
• Has a permanently-on microphone "listening to the tone of your voice"
• Makes you upload nudes to "calculate your body fat" using clearly-bullshit computer vision
• Is somehow not a prop from Black Mirrorhttps://t.co/ltubfjo9uy
There's this fiction podcast called @VALENCEpod which had been going for a while. In it is this story about an evil company which makes a wearable wristband called a halo.
— Jack Rhysider (@JackRhysider) August 28, 2020
Then this came out today. https://t.co/8x74RgfrQO
WHY WOULD YOU PUT EMOTION DETECTION ON A FITNESS APP? https://t.co/L3cOTlU8Om
— Liz O’Sullivan (@lizjosullivan) August 27, 2020
so amazon have made some creepy health sensor band with an always on microphone that monitors your voice and analyzes your tone? this line is classic tho "if you have an accent" EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT! ALSO YOUR TECH IS CREEPY THE HECK WHO WANTS THIShttps://t.co/c4Gf8x6vXL pic.twitter.com/MoFs1Q8nJn
— Lotte 'just an idiot' May ?????☕?? (@LotteMakesStuff) August 27, 2020
I think this was on a Black Mirror episode. https://t.co/EQZyOGdRFm
— Antoine Bousquet (@AJBousquet) August 28, 2020
New amazon wearable product scans your tone of voice for metrics like "positivity and energy." This will not end well. https://t.co/AgHUza8qaC
— Adam Seligman (@adamse) August 27, 2020
genuinely curious what the user need is for a device that "listens to your voice and reports back on what it believes your emotional state was throughout the day" ????https://t.co/SH64wefDrH
— Mollie Leavitt (@mollie_leavitt) August 27, 2020
#AmazonHalo は #Alexa と連携しないのですか？血中酸素飽和度も測定できると、絶対に買います！ > https://t.co/hYuVlFOtJx
— 風の民@?????応援フレンズ (@allforbigfire) August 27, 2020
I’m excited to announce our collaboration with Amazon for the launch of Amazon Halo which underscores our shared commitment to help members build good habits to live healthier lives. https://t.co/UvENDxLU6i
— Tiff (@gailtifford) August 27, 2020
아마존 헤일로 Amazon Halo 관련 아마존 보도자료
— lunamoth (@lunamoth) August 27, 2020
배터리 7일, 5가지 핵심 기능 : 활동/수면/신체/어조/연구실
Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness | Amazon Inc. - Press Room https://t.co/8wam4zLtyu
Check it. #Amazon debuts Halo smart health subscription service and Halo Band wearable activity tracker https://t.co/2wYGdO0D47 via @techcrunch #tech #digital #data #business pic.twitter.com/5dyTfouCiQ
— Kohei Kurihara -DataPrivacy for Fighting Covid-19- (@kuriharan) August 28, 2020