You'd Never Guess This Is a Fitness Tracker

Fitness trackers and smartwatches have flooded the market in recent years, gaining popularity in a world becoming increasingly health-conscious. Whilst highly functional, these trackers are hardly inconspicuous with somewhat clunky designs that may suit your activewear ensemble but little else.

Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung and Apple now offer a wide range of trackers and watches that help track sleep quality, heart rate, step count, calories burned and a range of other metrics. While technologies are advancing; only a few steps have been taken in the way of the design, making some of these unsightly trackers hard to wear 24/7.

Enter Oura: A discreet fitness tracker ring fit for royalty that looks at three key metrics, including your activity goal progress, sleep score, and readiness for the day ahead.

Who is Wearing Oura Ring?

Oura Health Ltd. is a Finnish health technology backed by celebrities such as Will Smith and Shaquille O'Neal. Their prized product, the Oura Ring, has already cultivated quite the following from Silicon Valley to Buckingham Palace.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Jill Zarin of the Real Housewives and Prince Harry have all been spotted wearing the famous fitness tracker. Oura has even partnered with the NBA, with over 2,000 employees wearing the ring across the league. Fun fact: The sports league made it out of their season without a single case of COVID19 among players and staff.

What is the Oura Ring?

The Oura Ring is unique in its minimal design and advanced sensor technology. It is available in 4 scratch-proof and sleek colours including silver, black, stealth and gold. The ring connects to an easy-to-use mobile app, delivering precise, personalised health insights straight from your body.

What are the Oura Health Scores?

Unlike some fitness trackers, Oura Rings can be worn 24/7—helping to provide the most accurate information based on a full day of data. Oura provides personalised easy to interpret Readiness, Sleep, and Activity scores each day based on your baselines.

Readiness

Wellness professionals often urge us to 'listen to our bodies'. Oura takes the guesswork out by looking at data from both activities in the day and sleep during the night, establishing if your body is ready for a challenge or needs a little relaxation.

The readiness score helps determine your capacity to perform at your mental, emotional and physical best—looking at factors including sleep quality, previous day's activity, resting heart rate and body temperature.

Sleep

Compared with other fitness trackers, the Oura Ring is slanted a bit more toward sleep statistics. It provides a personalised measure of sleep quality, stages and duration—analysing total sleep, REM sleep, sleep latency and several other factors all whilst you are dreaming.

Activity

Oura also measures your overall movement and helps track the level of activity each day. The ring looks at factors including steps, total calories burned, training volume and frequency, recovery time and whether daily activity goals are met.

How Does the Oura Ring Work?

With a battery life of between 5 and 7 days, this water-resistant ring uses advanced sensor technology to analyse and provide some of the most accurate metrics. Here is how:

Measurements Straight From your Finger

Doctors measure your pulse from your finger, not your wrist for a reason. Oura measures directly from arteries within your fingers rather than the capillaries in the wrist to get the best read on your heart rate.

Infrared Light Sensors

Whilst many other trackers depend on green light LEDs, Oura used infrared light photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors that can reach deeper to provide more precise scores.

Accelerometer

This device helps to measure acceleration and subtle movements throughout the day. From your morning run through to your stroll around the shops, Oura uses highly sensitive activity detection to capture your every move and every calorie burned.

NTC Temperature Sensors

Other fitness trackers often rely on estimates from your external environment, but the Oura measures temperature directly from your skin.

It seems that from here, we can only expect fitness trackers to get sleeker. Goodbye, clunky smart watches. Hello smart jewellery.

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