If you haven’t already felt the shame that only a Wii Fit system sitting in your family’s living room can provide, then the latest app from the creators of Fitbit, Luffu (loo-foo), might do the trick. They’re doing what they do best: health tracking. Except this isn’t about tracking your personal growth (usually around the waist), it’s tracking the whole family’s. Think of it as Life360 that isn’t concerned with where your son is, but rather whether he’s hitting the ‘bells hard enough.
Luffu-fighters?
We’ll give you three guesses as to how it hopes to pull it off. Yup, artificial intelligence, though founders James Park and Eric Friedman are careful not to use that exact term on Luffu’s website. There, it’s known as an ‘intelligent family care system’, though the company’s press release isn’t shy about how it gets there.
Using artificial intelligence in the background, Luffu aims to monitor the family’s health and organise all its findings in a single, easy-to-access place. Users can log information using text, photos, or voice. Once all the data is gathered, the AI takes an educated guess when something is wrong, like when Mark’s sleep pattern is irregular, or a spike in their vitals that could be cause for alarm.
“Track the whole family’s details effortlessly, such as health stats, diet, medications, symptoms, lab tests, doctor visits, and more, and see the big picture of everyone’s wellbeing. Coordinate with family members and caregivers so you’re all on the same page, and nothing gets missed,” the website reads.
While Luffu’s app is only available in beta form, via a waitlist, the creators have grand plans that involve “expanding into an ecosystem of first-party hardware products designed to complement the service.” Until then, users will have to make do with integrating their Fitbit or Apple Health accounts for Luffu to get its kicks.
There’s no telling when the app will get a larger release, nor when the ‘first-party hardware’ plans will come into play. For now, Luffu’s just drumming up hype around yet another AI product that, if done right, may actually find itself being rather useful for larger families
