Nintendo Details Its First Quality Of Life Device. Measures Sleep Quality

Earlier this year, Nintendo revealed its intention to focus on "quality of life" as its long term goal for the next 10 years. Today, the company finally revealed its first product of such.

In the company's second quarter fiscal briefing, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed a collaboration with U.S. firm ResMed, a global manufacturer of sleep disorder treatments, to create a device that should enhance the quality of its users' sleep.

The device is designed to monitor its user's sleep pattern when put beside the bed without having to wear any sensors or connect the device to the bed in any way. The data collected by the device is analyzed on Nintendo's QOL cloud in order to measure and visualize the user's fatigue.

"Since fatigue per se is not regarded as a disease in the medical world, it is said to be a field where sufficient research has yet to be conducted," said Iwata. "We have been fortunate to encounter several experts who have been conducting cutting-edge research in the science of fatigue. Together, we are now developing technology to estimate fatigue."

"Accurate and simplified fatigue measurements enable self-comprehension of the body which is very significant for contemporary humans, and I think it can be used as the benchmark to improve our QOL. We will all do our utmost to achieve this world-first product."