Amazon’s Echo Buds are now fitness trackers too

Alexa, show me a business hub for fitness tracking.

Amazon announced that its Alexa technology Echo Buds it will soon benefit from support for monitoring data related to user training. In the the coming days, users will be able to give the voice assistant the command “Alexa, start my workout” and the buttons will start tracking data on calories burned, distance traveled and pace. According to TechCrunch

, the controls also include the ability to tell Alexa to end a workout, pause a walk or run, or reveal the distance you’ve walked or traveled, as well as the pace of the workout.

CNBC reported that Echo Buds users can activate the feature from their Alexa app by selecting Create a training profile

since training menu below Account settings. Users will be able to view their Buds data by accessing their devices in the Alexa app, selection of Echo Buds since Echo and Alexa option and choose training.

The ability to track fitness data with a pair of headphones that drastically cuts down on products offered by other fitness-focused tech giants like Apple certainly looks appealing; At the time of writing, the Echo Buds were only $ 80 (compared to $ 130) on Amazon, well below the price of a pair of AirPods or AirPods Pro, for example. This could make Amazon Buds a no-brainer for people who want to reap the benefits of fitness tracking without spending hundreds of dollars on a pair.

But Amazon also hasn’t indicated that this whole fitness fulcrum put a lot of thought into it before pulling the trigger on its other fitness products. The company recently debuted Amazon Halo, whose “body composition tool” uses its own smartphone to track its body fat percentage, which a user can then adjust to see how it would look more or less on their person. Oh!. It should be noted that the body scan does not give a full picture your health, and should certainly not be used in place of discussing with your doctor to determine what is best for your overall health.

The buds appear mostly harmless. But given Amazon’s questionable overall approach to fitness and health, it’s worth asking whether it makes sense to shop around Amazon’s fitness ecosystem or save. for something that, you know, is a little less embarrassing.