Nintendo wants to help you get a good-nights rest.
The video game giant announced today that it will unveil a non-wearable device to help customers measure their sleep and fatigue. It will be available in 2016.
In a presentation from Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, the company showed how the standalone device will sit on a user’s nightstand and use radio frequencies to measure body movements, breathing and heartbeats. It will then communicate with cloud servers to provide data around sleep condition and fatigue status.
This is Nintendo’s first device as part of its “Quality of Life” platform it first announced back in January. The company joins others who are entering the fitness/sleep-tracking market — from Apple to Microsoft to Google — with their own health-related devices.
Nintendo posted a quarterly profit of 24.2 billion yen, or $224 million, earlier this week.
