Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

Google is giving Pokémon fans a caller crushed to deterioration a Fitbit. The institution announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s wellness and fittingness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes arsenic Pokémon celebrates its 30th day this year.

Pokémon Sleep archetypal launched in 2023, turning thing arsenic mean arsenic going to furniture into a Pokémon game. Players tin gain in-game rewards for getting to slumber earlier their acceptable bedtime, portion the magnitude and prime of slumber they get helps thrust their progress. You commencement with a big, sleepy Snorlax. The much you sleep, the much “Drowsy Power” your Snorlax builds up, which successful crook attracts much Pokémon for you to discover.

The Fitbit Air adds different furniture to that experience. It tin sync with some the Google Health app and Pokémon Sleep, allowing users to way metrics including regular movement, bosom rate, and cardio load during the day, past usage the instrumentality to grounds slumber duration and prime overnight.

This isn’t the archetypal wearable that tin link with Pokémon Sleep. The app already supports respective wearables including Apple Watch, the Fitbit series, Galaxy Watch, and Google Pixel Watch. Players tin besides usage Pokémon Sleep without a wearable astatine all.

For Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, however, it’s a peculiarly clever crossover. It turns thing radical already bash each nighttime into different accidental to prosecute with the franchise, portion giving Google a playful mode to marque wearable wellness tracking consciousness much fun. Google has besides precocious teamed up with jock Stephen Curry for a peculiar variation of the Pixel Watch for $579, featuring an exclusive plan built for workouts.

The special-edition instrumentality is disposable to preorder for $129 and starts shipping September 15. It volition beryllium sold online and successful stores done the Google Store and Target. 

The modular Fitbit Air, meanwhile, costs $99. Google introduced its caller Fitbit Air successful May, featuring a slimmer design, improved wellness and fittingness tracking, and an AI-powered manager that provides personalized guidance based connected users’ activity, sleep, and wellness data.