Nintendo’s newest piece of hardware is… a sleep monitor?

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Last Updated Originally published July 26, 2015 · 3:20 AM EDT
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Checking your smartphone while you’re laying in bed can be such a hassle, I mean you actually have to reach all the over and grab it. This is where Nintendo thinks it can be of assistance as the company has patented a new “quality of life” device that will project everything that on your smartphone onto your ceiling so that all you need to do is open your eyes to check it. 

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Nintendo has published a set of patents relating to its in-development “quality of life” device. The patent designs dug up by NeoGAF detail how Nintendo’s under-wraps wireless sleep monitor may operate. The device looks like a cross between a digital alarm clock and an iPhone charging dock. Its front houses a set of speakers, while the rear includes a projector for displaying data on your ceiling. Yes, on your ceiling. “This information processing system comprises a portable terminal,” Nintendo’s patent explains. “The portable terminal detects sensor information for assessing a user’s emotions. “It would be permissible, as an example, for the sensor information to be sound information which is detected by a microphone, or image information which is captured by a camera.

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