I tested a subscription-free smart ring that competes with Oura — and it’s on sale for $65 for the holidays
What’s up?
the The sublime air ring is a competitive smart ring that tracks your sleep and fitness. Right now, you can get an extra $15 off the smart ring when you use code JOY15. This $15 discount is on top of the $50 offer running on QVC’s website. JOY15 discount can only be used once and is only applicable on December 13 for a one-day offer.
Key points of ZDNET
- the The sublime air ring is the brand’s first foray into smart rings, and it costs $349, no subscription required.
- This ring is ideal for high-intensity fitness enthusiasts and recreational exercisers who want to use their health data to optimize their wellness routine.
- The application’s user interface could be improved for easier access to daily logging functions.
As one of the hottest new smart rings on the market, The sublime air ring provides features and data collection that go beyond Oura for people who want to optimize their health. I tested one along with Oura Horizon Ring for the past month, wearing both around the clock and documenting everything from my morning coffee to my late-night cocktails. Suffice it to say, the Ultrahuman ring will stimulate people to take care of their health and fitness.
While Oura seems appealing to anyone who wants to invest in one smart ringUltrahuman’s product, while more suitable, is arguably better. If Oura Ring is the girl next door, Ultrahuman Ring Air is the Silicon Valley-based, Soylent-drinking Bitcoin mining neighbor. But while it will put hardcore fitness enthusiasts in the right direction, this ring will also help anyone, even recreational exercisers, optimize their body to a teenage level. .
Unlike the Oura Ring, which requires a monthly subscription for $6, the Ultrahuman Ring Air requires no subscription. Ultrahuman comes in matte gray, matte black, silver, and gold. Of all the smart rings I tested, it was by far the thinnest, most discreet, and most modest. Additionally, the matte gray finish didn’t scratch or dull after a month of use, which I couldn’t say about other smart rings with shiny metal finishes.
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From the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep, Ultrahuman will send you notifications on how to make the most of your available energy and body clock. With all this scientific knowledge about my body, I can’t help but feel like I’m ruining my health — or playing with God.
Within an hour of waking up, Ultrahuman sent me information about my “excess adenosine levels.” What’s mine? I had to look it up too. Adenosine is a natural chemical linked to alertness. It requires me to delay consuming stimulants like caffeine until about two hours after I wake up to remove adenosine from my body and increase the impact of caffeine on my energy levels. It also reminds me to expose myself to bright light or exercise during this time if I want to have an earlier bedtime and wake-up time.
Keep pinging like this all day long. Ultrahuman tells me when my stimulant allowance period, the period of time during which I can consume caffeine without disrupting my sleep, is about to end. Not only that: Ultrahuman also tells me how much caffeine is in certain stimulants, how long they will stay in my system, and whether they will exceed the amount of caffeine in my window.
As the day progresses, the Ultrahuman asks me to stretch my legs and know the ideal time to go to bed to get a full night’s sleep. This is all calculated based on my wake, 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 on sleep, recovery, and movement. It also measures VO2 Max or how the body uses oxygen during exercise.
Ultrahuman presents all this data in an easy-to-understand format through an app, with scores (and explanations) for the big three: sleep, movement, and recovery. For example, when I scored a sleep score of 95, it told me I fell asleep faster and slept through most of my rest. Along with my high sleep score, I scored a 90 recovery score, and the blurb told me that my score was good, so I “might want to put in a little more effort to reach my fitness goals and get my consciousness.” On a day where my sleep score was 49 and my recovery score was 64, the app instructed me to take a long walk and try “sleepless deep rest” during the day.
Other health data, such as HRV, VO2 Max and resting heart rate, are tracked and daily data is aggregated and displayed via graphs with daily, weekly and monthly trends – depicted by green and red indicators. All of these data points are accompanied by an explanation of what each indicator means for a person’s overall health, shedding light on their complexity.
Another health feature the Ultrahuman ring offers is food logging, which helps with utilization ChatGPT– Detailed food information powered by AI. I log what I eat throughout the day, and its Food Optimization AI provides what it calls robot insights — no, really — on how to avoid sugar spikes in my blood when I consume certain foods. When I logged a bag of chips, it told me to pair the chips with cheese or another protein, such as a hard-boiled egg, to slow glucose absorption. It also advised me to drink water before and after eating the chips and to take a brisk walk after eating them to reduce my blood sugar response. While I rarely take this advice, it’s a useful feature for exercisers and those looking to optimize their health and diet data.
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Of course, you can also record your workouts, which I often do when training for my half marathon. However, the ring does not automatically detect that you are exercising if it is not recorded. I hope Ultrahuman will improve this in future updates. I like that I can see a map of where I ran, my average heart rate, my maximum heart rate, the calories I burned, and my average pace. Additionally, it shows my training zones, which is essential for tracking long distances.
The final feature that makes this ring ideal for fitness junkies is the Explore tab, which offers video classes on everything from Pilates and weight training to HIIT and yoga. There are also podcasts for meditation and sounds to help you fall asleep.
You can wear the ring for about five days before the battery runs out. I tested its battery life against the Oura by charging both to 100% on a Tuesday afternoon and waiting to see how long each would last under regular wear and use. By Sunday morning, the Oura ring was at 7% and the Ultrahuman Ring Air was at 6%. However, I will note that the Ultrahuman ring will be hot to the touch after charging.
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In the next update of Ultrahuman Ring Air, I would like to see the app’s user interface improved. It’s possible to take some notes from Oura’s app, which provides sleep, readiness, recovery, and activity at the top of a home tab that aggregates this data at the bottom. Ultrahuman’s bottom tabs include home, metabolism, areas, Explore, and a basic profile section. I’d also like to see a more accessible logging feature, where you don’t have to scroll all the way down the app to use it for food, exercise tracking, weight, etc.
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Who should buy this ring? I can imagine that anyone interested in fitness and health metrics will be able to fully utilize Superman air ring. And given my sleep frequency and sleep and recovery scores from Oura’s copycat Ultrahuman, I wouldn’t hesitate to call this a no-subscription Oura scam with competitive data and battery life.
Ultimately, the Ultrahuman Ring Air impressed me. It’s exciting to see such a new product become a competitive fitness smart ring, just niche enough to appeal to an audience of fitness enthusiasts but with data presentation, Health indicators and AI suggestions can serve the common people. also.
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