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Luna launches the Luna Band at CES.
It's a hands-free health tracker that takes notes from Whoop.
Users log information without opening the Luna app.
Move over smartwatches, there's a new wearable coming for health tracking -- and you won't have to open an app to use it. Health technology company Luna introduced its Luna Band on Monday at CES in Las Vegas.
The smart band, which tracks a standard set of health metrics, offers voice-led health guidance powered by Luna's AI engine, so wearers can record health information without opening the app. Recording health information hands-free might seem trivial, but manually logging every mood or tagging meal information in an app quickly gets monotonous, exhausting, and becomes a deterrent to consistent use and accurate data capture.
LifeOS, Luna's AI engine, is connected to Siri, so you can log your information, like if your poor sleep was because of a long workday, if you ate a heavy meal late at night, or if you've been going through a poor mental health week. The idea behind this is that, while health trackers can continuously track all your vitals and biomarkers, like heart rate, heart rate variability, body temperature, and respiration, it has a harder time logging and explaining why there are fluctuations and changes in these biomarkers without the help of human context.
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