This smart ring for fitness enthusiasts competes with Oura and is currently $50 off

Dealing with what?

The Ultrahuman Ring Air has been lowered to $300 on Amazon. It’s a $50 discount and a great steal before the holiday shopping season.

ZDNET highlights

• The Ultrahuman Ring Air is the first commercial in the smart ring space, and is available for $349, no registration required.
• The Ring is great for fitness enthusiasts and exercisers who want to use their health data to improve their health habits.
• The user interface can be improved for easy access to daily logging tasks.

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As one of the hottest new smart rings on the market, the Ultrahuman Ring Air offers features and data collection beyond the Oura stage for people who want to improve their lives. I tried one near the Oura Horizon ring last month, wearing it day and night and cutting everything from my morning coffee to my cocktails. at night. Suffice it to say, the Ultrahuman ring will delight those called to their health and fitness.

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While Oura seems appealing to anyone looking to invest in a smart ring, Ultrahuman’s offering is, by far, the best. If Oura Ring is the girl next door, Ultrahuman Ring Air is the Silicon Valley-based, Bitcoin-mining neighbor who drinks Soylent. But while it will set fitness enthusiasts on the right track, this ring will help anyone, even recreational exercisers, improve their body to a tee.

Unlike Oura Ring, which requires a $6 monthly subscription, Ultrahuman Ring Air is free to sign up for. The Ultrahuman comes in matte grey, matte black, silver and gold. Of all the smart rings I’ve tried, it’s the thinnest, most discreet and unassuming. Additionally, the matte gray finish hasn’t chipped or tarnished after a month of use, something I can’t say about other smart rings with shiny metal bezels.

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From the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, Ultrahuman sends you alerts on how to best use your energy and body clock. With all these scientific facts on my body, I couldn’t help but feel like I was ruining my life — or playing God.

An hour after I wake up, Ultrahuman prompts me with “remaining adenosine levels.” What is mine? I had to look it up again. Adenosine is a natural chemical associated with alertness. It tells me to delay consuming stimulants like caffeine until two hours after I wake up to flush adenosine out of my system and enhance the effect of caffeine on my energy levels. It also reminds me to expose myself to bright light or exercise during this window if I want an earlier bedtime and wake up time.

Throughout the day, I get pings like this. Ultrahuman tells me when my tolerable stimulant window, the window in which I can consume caffeine without it disrupting my sleep, is ending. Not only that: Ultrahuman also tells me how much caffeine is in certain stimulants, how long they’ll stay in my system, and whether they’re better than drinking caffeine in my window.

As the day progresses, Ultrahuman asks me to stretch my legs and when would be a good time to sleep. All of this is calculated based on my wake times, sleep and recovery data.

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The Ultrahuman Ring Air measures heart rate, skin temperature, heart rate variability (HRV), and resting heart rate to collect data for sleep, recovery, and movement. It also measures VO2 Max, or how the body uses oxygen during exercise.

Ultrahuman presents all of this information in an easy-to-understand format in the app, with data (and comments) for the main three: sleep, movement and recovery. For example, when I got a sleep score of 95, it told me that I fell asleep quickly and slept most of my rest time. In line with my high sleep score, I got a 90 recovery score, and a clear explanation told me that my score was at a good level, so “I might want to push harder on goals.” your mental and physical health.” On a day when my sleep score was 49 and my recovery score was 64, the app instructed me to go for a long walk and try a “deep sleepless rest period” during the day.

Other health data, such as HRV, VO2 Max, and resting heart rate, are tracked and daily data is aggregated and displayed in graphs with daily trends. day, week and month — indicated by green and red symbols. All of these data points come with explanations of what each indicator means about a person’s overall health, clarifying their complexity.

Another health feature that the Ultrahuman ring offers is logging, which provides AI feed information powered by ChatGPT. I log what I eat throughout the day, and its Food Optimization AI provides what it calls cyborg data — no, literally — about how to avoid sugar spikes when I eat certain ones. When I put in a bag of potato chips, it told me to mix the chips with cheese or other protein, like a hard-boiled egg, to reduce sugar absorption. It also told me to drink water before and after eating the chips and walk quickly after eating them to lower my glycemic response. Although I rarely take this advice, this is a helpful feature for fitness and people who want to improve their diet and health information.

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Of course, you can also do workouts, something I did a lot while training for a half marathon. The Ring does not automatically detect that you are exercising, however, if it is not registered. I hope Ultrahuman improves this in the future. I liked that I could see a map of where I was running, my heart rate, my maximum heart rate, my calories burned, and my average pace. Also, it showed my workout zones, which is important for long-term tracking.

The final feature that makes this ring perfect for fitness junkies is the Discover tab, which offers video classes for everything from Pilates and weight training to of HIIT and yoga. There are also podcasts available for meditation and soundscapes for sleep.

You can wear the ring for five days before the battery dies. I tested its battery life against the Oura by charging both to 100% on Tuesday afternoon and am waiting to see how long each will last with wear and tear always. On Sunday morning, Oura’s ring was at 7% and Ultrahuman Ring Air was at 6%. However, I will note that the Ultrahuman ring gets hot after charging.

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In the next updates of Ultrahuman Ring Air, I would like to see the interface of the device improve. It may take data from the Oura app, which provides sleep, alertness, energy, and activity on top of a home page that collects this data below. Ultrahuman’s bottom tabs include home, metabolism, locations, Discover, and a bare bones profile section. I would also like to see a more accessible logging feature where you don’t have to scroll down the app to use it for food, exercise, weight and more.

ZDNET shopping advice

Who should buy this ring? I think anyone tuned into fitness and health metrics will find the full use of Ultrahuman Ring Air. And considering my sleep time, sleep and recovery points from Ultrahuman mimic Oura’s, I wouldn’t be afraid to call this a free “Oura dupe” with conflicting points. battery life.

Finally, Ultrahuman Ring Air impressed me. It’s exciting to see a new product step up into the competitive fitness ring, a space that’s perfect for creating fitness-minded people but with data generation, health metrics, and AI suggestions that can only satisfy Joe. again.

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