Nintendo Puts Sleep Tracker Device on Indefinite Hiatus

It's called QOL Sensor ("quality of life")

By Karl Utermohlen, InvestorPlace Writer Feb 5, 2016, 4:31 pm EDT February 5, 2016

Nintendo is stopping the development of a sleep tracker device it had in the works.

The video game giant announced the device over a year ago and it has now announced that the QOL Sensor (“quality of life”) is being put on hold indefinitely.

The Nintendo gadget was designed to be placed on your nightstand and monitor fatigue and sleep, originally slated for a first-quarter 2016 release.

Company president Tatsumi Kimishima gave an update about the product during an investors briefing and said the gadget was no longer in the works.

“We do not have the conviction that the sleep-and-fatigue-themed [device] can enter the phase of actually becoming a product,” said Kimishima, in a translated quote.

The non-wearable device was meant to be part of Nintendo’s “Quality of Life” platform. The company says it is still working on products under that platform.

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