This ring wants to help you live longer. I gave it a try
From smartwatches to connected scales and even Wi-Fi beds, it's a well-established idea that access to information about how our bodies are running can help us meet our wellness goals, get an early warning on potential issues and encourage healthy habits. And a new gadget has emerged recently that promises 24/7 tracking in the most subtle way possible; disguised as a ring.
Smart rings from Samsung and Oura have shown what's possible, and the new Ultrahuman Ring Air is an even lighter and less conspicuous option. At $600 (and no subscription necessary), it's a plain and extremely light ring in black, gold, silver or grey titanium, with a comfy hypoallergenic epoxy on the inside that lets you peer in at the hardware for measuring heart rate, skin temperature, movement, blood oxygen and more. And, of course, it connects to its own app on your iPhone or Android.
Physically, it's an undeniably masculine ring, but it does look like regular dumb jewellery at a glance. Mine has picked up a lot of scratches and marks on the coating over a few weeks of wear, so I'm not sure what it would look like in a year. It just feels like wearing a ring, and most of the time I forget it's there.
The ring takes heart rate readings periodically, counts steps and detects workouts for finer tracking. When you sleep or nap, it calculates stages and monitors movement and timing. And all the data goes to the main platform to be crunched into insights about stress, recovery, alertness and more.
Ultrahuman is a platform based in India that focuses on longevity through data tracking. In addition to the ring, it sells a biosensor for continuous glucose monitoring, so you can see the effect of food on your metabolism, and the software is big on keeping biomarkers within certain zones. While collecting data on our bodies can be good, it's also known that becoming too attached to the numbers can be decidedly unhealthy, and it's easy to be reminded of this when glancing at all the goals and dashboards in the Ultrahuman app.
Whether the platform can ultimately help people live longer is a bit beyond the scope of this review. But based purely on my experience with this ring and its app, even if I could somehow be assured that following every one of the suggestions would net me a few extra days on Earth, I'm not certain it would be worth it.
By default, Ultrahuman bombards me with reminders to stick to my 'caffeine permissible window', which apparently doesn't start until two hours after I wake up; and warnings to limit light exposure by 7pm. I get vague informational updates about sleep debt and stress rhythm, reminders to stretch my limbs and walk around, and prods about infinitesimal changes in my heart rate variability. If you dive into the data in the app, you can get lost in a sea of minima zones, phase advance goals (it's tracking my progress towards waking my body up earlier, but I already get up at 6.30?), sympathetic activation and hormone health.
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From smartwatches to connected scales and even Wi-Fi beds, it's a well-established idea that access to information about how our bodies are running can help us meet our wellness goals, get an early warning on potential issues and encourage healthy habits. And a new gadget has emerged recently that promises 24/7 tracking in the most subtle way possible; disguised as a ring. Smart rings from Samsung and Oura have shown what's possible, and the new Ultrahuman Ring Air is an even lighter and less conspicuous option. At $600 (and no subscription necessary), it's a plain and extremely light ring in black, gold, silver or grey titanium, with a comfy hypoallergenic epoxy on the inside that lets you peer in at the hardware for measuring heart rate, skin temperature, movement, blood oxygen and more. And, of course, it connects to its own app on your iPhone or Android. Physically, it's an undeniably masculine ring, but it does look like regular dumb jewellery at a glance. Mine has picked up a lot of scratches and marks on the coating over a few weeks of wear, so I'm not sure what it would look like in a year. It just feels like wearing a ring, and most of the time I forget it's there. The ring takes heart rate readings periodically, counts steps and detects workouts for finer tracking. When you sleep or nap, it calculates stages and monitors movement and timing. And all the data goes to the main platform to be crunched into insights about stress, recovery, alertness and more. Ultrahuman is a platform based in India that focuses on longevity through data tracking. In addition to the ring, it sells a biosensor for continuous glucose monitoring, so you can see the effect of food on your metabolism, and the software is big on keeping biomarkers within certain zones. While collecting data on our bodies can be good, it's also known that becoming too attached to the numbers can be decidedly unhealthy, and it's easy to be reminded of this when glancing at all the goals and dashboards in the Ultrahuman app. Whether the platform can ultimately help people live longer is a bit beyond the scope of this review. But based purely on my experience with this ring and its app, even if I could somehow be assured that following every one of the suggestions would net me a few extra days on Earth, I'm not certain it would be worth it. By default, Ultrahuman bombards me with reminders to stick to my 'caffeine permissible window', which apparently doesn't start until two hours after I wake up; and warnings to limit light exposure by 7pm. I get vague informational updates about sleep debt and stress rhythm, reminders to stretch my limbs and walk around, and prods about infinitesimal changes in my heart rate variability. If you dive into the data in the app, you can get lost in a sea of minima zones, phase advance goals (it's tracking my progress towards waking my body up earlier, but I already get up at 6.30?), sympathetic activation and hormone health.
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