{"id":112497,"date":"2024-10-10T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112497"},"modified":"2024-10-10T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:58:51","slug":"alarmo-has-a-fascinating-connection-to-late-nintendo-president-satoru-iwata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112497","title":{"rendered":"Alarmo Has a Fascinating Connection to Late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Today Nintendo shocked the world by revealing brand new hardware\u2026 But it\u2019s certainly not the Switch successor we\u2019re all (im)patiently waiting for. Instead, Nintendo did its thing and zagged when we all expected it to zig by <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/forget-switch-2-nintendo-just-released-a-100-interactive-alarm-clock-called-alarmo\">announcing Alarmo: a Nintendo Sound Clock<\/a> that will wake you up with tunes and effects from popular Switch games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">It\u2019s a brand new type of product for Nintendo, but if there\u2019s some itch in the back of your brain telling you you\u2019ve seen this before, it\u2019s because you probably have. And the person that initially presented it to us was none other than the late, great Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">I\u2019ll take you all the way back to 2014, which was a very different time for Nintendo. It was coming off one of the worst financial years in company history (sorry, <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/18\/nintendos-year-of-luigi-ending-in-march\">Year of Luigi<\/a>) as it struggled to sell Wii U. At a <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/30\/nintendo-on-its-future\"><u>shareholder\u2019s meeting in 2014<\/u><\/a>, Iwata dropped the first hints of Nintendo\u2019s brand new Quality of Life initiative, teasing the development of &#8220;non-wearable technology&#8221; focused on health that \u201cis not necessarily something you will use in the living room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In October of that same year, Iwata revealed Nintendo\u2019s first Quality of Life product, which it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/10\/satoru_iwata_outlines_nintendos_first_qol_platform\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>intended to launch in 2016<\/u><\/a>. The product was a <em>non-wearable sleep sensor<\/em> intended to be placed on a bedside table. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2024\/10\/09\/qol1-1728505440061.jpg\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-722397770\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"undefined\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2024\/10\/09\/qol1-1728505440061.jpg?width=1280&amp;fit=bounds&amp;height=720&amp;quality=20&amp;dpr=0.05\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387 loading\"\/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p><\/output><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Here\u2019s a description of what Iwata had planned at the time: \u201cInside the QOL Sensor is a non-contact radio frequency sensor, which measures such things as the movements of your body, breathing and heartbeat, all without physically touching your body. This automatically gathered data will be transmitted to the QOL cloud servers, which will then analyze the data measured by the sensor and visually represent sleep and fatigue results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Sound familiar? It\u2019s essentially exactly what Nintendo announced today with Alarmo, nearly exactly 10 years after Iwata originally shared the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">But until today, those plans sadly never came to fruition. After <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/13\/nintendo-ceo-satoru-iwata-has-passed-away\"><u>Iwata\u2019s tragic passing<\/u><\/a> in 2015, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima announced that the product had been shelved indefinitely, explaining in a statement translated at the time by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/02\/nintendo-qol-sleep-tracker\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Wired<\/u><\/a> that \u201cwe do not have the conviction that the sleep-and-fatigue-themed [device] can enter the phase of actually becoming a product\u2026 We no longer have any plans to release it by the end of March 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">It was only a few years later that Japanese news outlet Nikkei reported that Nintendo\u2019s Quality of Life initiative had been <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2018\/06\/04\/the-nikkei-reports-that-nintendos-quality-of-life-project-is-dead\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>entirely canceled<\/u><\/a>. It was 2018 at that point, and we were all living in a post-Switch, post-Breath of the Wild era, and one of the final remnants of Nintendo\u2019s least successful generation quietly faded away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Or did it? In 2019, The Pok\u00e9mon Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/nintendos_quality_of_life_initiative_is_still_alive_but_has_no_link_to_pokemon_sleep\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>revealed Pok\u00e9mon Sleep<\/u><\/a>, which raised questions about if this was what the Quality of Life initiative had turned into. Nintendo denied these claims, but shockingly confirmed that its <em>own<\/em> Quality of Life project was still alive and well. In 2020, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/nintendos_quality_of_life_project_pops_up_yet_again_in_new_patent\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>patent surfaced<\/u><\/a> for a non-wearable sleep tracking device that looks like an early version of today\u2019s newly-revealed Alarmo, with a description that reads in part: \u201cA Doppler sensor is included in the base device which detects biological information such as respiration and pulse, in addition to the user\u2019s body movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2024\/10\/09\/patent-1728505543406.jpg\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-722397770\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"undefined\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2024\/10\/09\/patent-1728505543406.jpg?width=1280&amp;fit=bounds&amp;height=720&amp;quality=20&amp;dpr=0.05\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387 loading\"\/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p><\/output><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">While today\u2019s announcement trailer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/whatsnew\/ask-the-developer-vol-14-nintendo-sound-clock-alarmo-part-1\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ask the Developer series<\/a> make no mention of President Iwata or the decade-old launch of the Quality of Life initiative, connecting the dots makes it clear that this project is deeply intertwined with Iwata\u2019s lasting legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Blogroll photo credit: Junko Kimura\/Getty Images<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Logan Plant is IGN&#8217;s Database Manager, Playlist Editor, and Super Ninfriendo on Nintendo Voice Chat. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/alarmo-has-a-fascinating-connection-to-late-nintendo-president-satoru-iwata\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Nintendo shocked the world by revealing brand new hardware\u2026 But it\u2019s certainly not the Switch successor we\u2019re all (im)patiently waiting for. 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