Several generations of Series whatever Apple Watches with various different straps have adorned my right wrist over the last 5+ years, such that a Series 8 now the daily on the right wrist with a bright yellow green silicone strap. A BERNY Automatic "Railway Clock" style wristwatch wears on my left wrist, or one of the other exceptional automatic self winding mechanicals in my watch collection.
Oura Ring Suggestion
I was visiting my cousin Dr. Miller in Michigan a couple years ago when he introduced me to & suggested I look into the Oura Ring as a fitness sleep tracker that he uses as a surgeon. I don't like the $6/mo subscription for the Oura App required for it to work. So I looked into a search for the best Smart Rings in 2024 and found some on Amazon that peaked my interest. I then performed a comparison between the Series 8 Apple Watch & the late 2023 Ultrahuman Air made of tungsten carbide coated grade 5 titanium with a polymer liner attaching & coating the electronics inside, they recommend you get the sizing kit before ordering the ring as the Smart Ring sizing different than traditional rings.
Finger Rings
My wedding ring is made of polished tungsten carbide and super scratch resistant, dark gloss shiny reflective, and proven very durable and wears nice. It was under $50 on Amazon back in 2010. I am not into vanity or materialism overtly, but like nice stuff. My car a 2022 Corolla Hybrid, my motorcycle a 2020 Yamaha MT-03.
Necklace
I wear a chunky metal 5oz Mexican silver chain around my neck that I got for $100 back in the year 2000 & it's my favorite necklace due to its bold look & invisible wear. I have been wearing it 24/7 for so long I don't even notice its there except when I take it off to clean it of silver sulfide black tarnish every few years or so.
Fitbit & Fitness Tracking
I have been researching fitness trackers since early version of Fitbits long before I dove into the Apple Watch & iPhone consumer electronics daily charging short battery life arena, neurotic charge required because of the limited battery life since it has every feature and function a wrist computer can offer with a state of the art SOC made by TSMC's latest node for Apple with class leading power efficiency to run on a tiny lithium polymer 3.7vdc battery inside the Apple Watch for up to 18 hours.
Constant Apple Watch Charging
I wear my Apple Watch persistently except when charging it, when swimming, when hiking, when showering, when sleeping, and take it off and clean it in the shower and charge it my car on the way to work, or on my iMac at my desk at home, or on the School Bus using a USB adapter to plug into the dashboard and older USB-A ended Apple Watch charger & iPhone charing cable before the Type C versions launched, from older versions of both that are in my collection sitting idle nowadays.
When I compare the Ultrahuman Ring Air to an Apple Watch Series 8, the Air has much less functionality. I also do not want to load a 3rd party App and appreciate the built in Apple Watch pairing ecosystem functionality with my iPhone 14. I am still interested in trying a Smart Ring as Blake indicated its much nicer passive fitness tracker with up to 6 days of battery life vs barely a day for Apple Watch. Keeping my Apple Watch Series 8 charged requires daily charging in bursts of 10-30 min, while having a few different Apple Watch chargers in my backpack, car, bus, bedroom, enables Meg & I to charge our Apple Watches daily easily.
Meg charges her Apple Watch Series 9 at work, since she works in a home with an Apple Watch charging cable setup as the woman she works for tried an Apple Watch but didn't care for the short battery life & kept it. I gave Meg the Series 9 Apple Watch for her 42nd Birthday gift this year in April, and she really loves the bright yellow official silicon band that it came with too :) We both love bright yellow and bright or neon versions of green or yellow or yellow green or lime green or nuclear yellow or vivid yellow. I like bright high visibility colors in general, since they seem to make me feel better.
3.8 out of 5 review score on Amazon for Ultrahuman Ring Air
Noting 3 days of battery life, failing after 1 month, causing finger irritation, disconnecting from App randomly and other problems, it seems to be in need of more refinement as a product, certainly not up to the exceptional fit, make, quality, function, tracking accuracy, precision, and build of the Apple Watch Series 8 or 9. Oura Ring Gen3 look much more refined & polished as product, but again the monthly subscription kill the deal and here is why. $6/mo on my budget not a deal breaker, but multiply this across 36 months and thats over $100 in added cost, raising the out of pocket cost for the Oura & thats assuming I can make good use of it for 3 years, since it could easily fail with lithium ion battery fading long before that as pervious versions of the Apple Watch have done, requiring me to use my Level 2 Wise Certified device repairs technician skills and tools to do device surgery to replace the Apple Watch batteries with parts from iFixit.com // though for upgrades I ended up getting newer versions anyways.
Sealed Batteries Eco-Toxic
How do you change batteries in wireless ear buds like Apple AirPods or the Smart Rings ? You don't, thats called designed obsolesce, such that as the batteries fade the device doomed to become e-waste within a few years when the sealed non user replaceable batteries fades away and unable to hold a decent or useful amount of charge anymore.
Conclusion //
Get A Samsung Gear if you use an Android smartphone
Get an Apple Watch Series 9 if you use an iPhone
Wait for a few more years until Smart Rings other than Oura have the same quality as Oura Rings.
Look forward to optical blood glucose tracking & blood pressure tracking in future devices, radically increasing their medical value for tracking biological data to give patients real time feedback essential to more effectively treating conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
Look forward to Smart Shoes or Smart Pants or Smart Socks or Smart Jackets, many other wearable internet-of-things devices of many sizes, styles and device classes aside from watches and rings.
Optical Blood Glucose Tracking is the Abbot Freestyle or Dexcom G7 alternative that will help smart watches with this functionality to sell in far greater quantities to new kinds of customers that would have never considered purchasing one without this feature of function. This is because there is a global diabetes Type 3 and Type 2 epidemic affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide. Giving these people the ability to actively view their blood glucose level on a smartwatch will ship hundreds of millions of units because of just this exact function, optical blood glucose tracking!
Apple Watch Series Whatever
More than a $10 billion dollar program at Apple, they consult doctors, elite athletes, sports nutritionists, and engage in R&D and extensive testing such that Apple Watch gets constant updates, pairs with Apple Watch seamlessly with excellent unbroken connectivity and great signal strength for on body pairing with iPhone is your pocket or bag or backpack and Apple Watch on your wrist.
In a similar market capitalization and R&D expenditure, Samsung Gear watches are a multibillion dollar program spanning many generations with constant hardware and software updates that pair perfectly with the latest android smartphones of all different kinds. Apple Watches are way better fitness trackers than Smart-Rings.
Even the best Smart Ring the Oura Ring Gen3 Horizon not nearly as good as a fitness tracking solution than a Series 8 Apple Watch or the last gen Apple Watch since they are currently selling Series 9.
Watch OS11 Vitals App for Apple Watch builds on the Health App with sleep tracking features that rival the Oura Ring & the likes of Garmin smartwatches. This will help Series 10 Apple Watch to offer enhanced tracking of body vitals like body temperature variation, heart rate variation, breathing rate variation & movements recorded to get a clearer picture of sleep quality for insight about whether you should take it easy during the day or go vigorous with more exercise or intensive.
Let's be clear, some days you need to rest and recover with anabolism or building & repairing damaged tissue & muscle. When you go hard core & tackle the day with great intensity and high level exercise thats called an on day or catabolism where tissue and muscle are damaged. Overtraining without rest and recover counter productive and can cause injuries that take weeks or months to heal, throwing you way off of achieving your daily fitness goals for a while. That's why alternating workout intensive days with rest & recovery focused days so important.
The upcoming Apple Watch OS Vitals app sleep insights will help provide users detailed information about their sleep possibly superior to the Oura Ring Horizon related well polished Oura App. I am saying that a Series 10 Apple Watch a superior fitness & sleep tracker overall as an ecosystem with iPhone than the Oura Gen3 Horizon, though I still love the superior battery life & biometrics from the Oura in sleep well made package thats much more discrete than an Apple Watch. For anyone looking into the best smart ring, OURA Gen3 Horizon the best one available, otherwise Apple Watch Series 10 with the Vitals & Health & Fitness tracking apps a superior platform with way more features and functions.
Future Smart Clothing
E-textiles fabrics that enable electronic components batteries, lights, sensors, & microcontrollers to be embedded, while still washable in commercial washing machines & hot dryers, resistant to sweat & water & hold up well as fabrics with integrated electronics. Smart clothing an example of wearable technology that builds on top of smartphones and smart watches & smart rings of today. Flexible conductive fibers can be woven into insulating fabrics to provide paths for current flow power and data flow within the smart garment or e-textile or electronic textiles.
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