Netflix detects when you’re asleep and pauses your video for you with new hack

Technology can solve big problems — the least of which is falling asleep during a movie and losing your place. Thankfully, Netflix staffers have created a solution for this by hacking a Fitbit device. Netflix staffers created a way to pause a video based on a Fitbit device’s sleep tracking feature. Any connected device can retrieve the data from a Fitbit — in this case, Netflix’s video controls. The Fitbit senses when a person is falling asleep and pauses the video.