Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band
Luffu, a new startup from Fitbit’s co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, on Tuesday launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band designed to monitor the wearer’s overall health, both physical and mental. The wearable combines all-day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, even when no phone is nearby.
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- Fact 1: The currently $250 device is available for pre-order and is expected to ship in early 2027.
- Fact 2: “Research shows over 27 hours a week on average, which is a crazy amount of time…I think technology can play a big role in helping reduce this load, but as we found out, the tools to help them are pretty fragmented,” he said.
- Fact 3: While Link is currently available for pre-order at a discounted price, its expected retail price is $300.
Luffu, a new startup from Fitbit’s co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, on Tuesday launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band designed to monitor the wearer’s overall health, both physical and mental. The wearable combines all-day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, even when no phone is nearby.
The currently $250 device is available for pre-order and is expected to ship in early 2027. It comes in three colors: halo gold, onyx black, and sterling blue. Luffu Link represents the next step in the startup’s mission to develop an intelligent family care system, as it complements the Luffu health-monitoring app, launched earlier this year.
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Original source: TechCrunch
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