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  • πŸ’ Casio made a ring that tells the time
  • πŸ“ It’s made from a single piece of metal and comes with a classic digital face
  • πŸ“± It’s not a smart ring, which means you can’t track your health with it
  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Casio will sell it in Japan to celebrate 50 years in the watch business
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

It’s not a smart ring, which means you can’t track your health with it

It can tell you your pulse BPM, just count how many heartbeats you get and measure one minute with the watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That's so obscene I'm willing to trow some money at it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Well that's just about the cutest darn ring I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah what on earth? It's not a health monitoring ring alternative, and doesn't try to be. It's a watch in ring form.

Smart rings/health monitoring rings are not the norm, I don't see why any other ring would be automatically compared to them.

It's not even like many people have heard of that brand of ring, so it's not even the kind of clickbait that would attract people, like mentioning an Apple product would be, or when anything about any EV would have to have Tesla in the title (e.g. "Is this EV a Tesla KILLER???")

I'm not much of a ring wearer, I don't even wear my own wedding ring, but this one actually looks pretty neat to me. I hope the battery is as easy to replace as they claim it to be.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wth is this article, the ring is being made in celebration of them as a watch company. It's a cute little gimmicky ring because making an anniversary watch is exactly what people expect them to do.

They didn't make a ring to compete with the Oura or Samsung's whatever. The article even mentions the Timex ring watch which was similarly made because they're celebrating 170 years of being in the business. Why even bring up smart rings/watches at all?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm about to release a not so smart AR Headset. Super light, It won't generate fake TV screens or give information like the apple vision pro, but it will just be tinted to help bright sunlight be less bright. Still brainstorming what to call this low tech VR/AR technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Don't over think it, call is the Augmented Reality Sunlight Absorption Headset with AI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

This is golden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

It was either that or show that picture of Bin Laden again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

aweee it's so smol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Ring watches are a thing. Seen them for a while but usually they look like rings and have a flap or something

[–] [email protected] 41 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Please focus on affordable dumb TVs – thanks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 22 hours ago

They made awesome portable TVs like uh, 30 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

It took me years to realize that my childhood Casio keyboard played Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and that’s why I liked the song

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

I want this ring.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Okay I misread that title as "Casio made a One Ring alternative"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Won't track your health, Won't prevent aids. May make you invisible to the seen realm, and draw the attention of unseen beings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Beware the Great Eye of Google. Ever it roams, ever it watches.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

You can now give someone the finger and tell them that’s the only time you have for them

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uhm it looks very odd, like you somehow have miniature wrists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Seems rather bulky for a ring also. I wonder if it snags on a lot of things while using your hands normally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I like Casio watches, but yeah I'd pass.

And the comparison to a smart ring is pants-on-head stupid..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

I kinda like it but rings bother me more than watches