• 💍 Casio made a ring that tells the time
  • 📐 It’s made from a single piece of metal and comes with a classic digital face
  • 📱 It’s not a smart ring, which means you can’t track your health with it
  • 🇯🇵 Casio will sell it in Japan to celebrate 50 years in the watch business
  • MagnyusG@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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?

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      1 month ago

      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.

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      1 month 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 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.

  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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    1 month 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.

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      1 month ago

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

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    1 month ago

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

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    1 month ago

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

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