This Small Ring Combines All Wearable Tech in One Piece

Many folks have a smartwatch nowadays, so in the event you in point of fact need to keep forward of the tech crowd, you’ll want a new and ambitious wearable software. Fortunately, the oldsters in the back of a new Kickstarter undertaking, the Xenxo S-Ring, are in a position and prepared to assist. Their new good ring guarantees to exchange your cumbersome wristband wearable with a software that has a lot of the similar capability, however suits on only one unmarried digit of your hand.

The tiny wearable boasts a general of 12 other options, together with the power to reply to calls by means of Bluetooth, integrated microphone and earpiece, 4GB of document garage, Google Assistant and Siri connectivity, alarm clock, NFC bills, pedometer, SOS signals, Bluetooth key, and extra. The software itself packs its personal microprocessor and a couple of sensors, and will also be managed the usage of a number of gestures. While it’s a long way from the first wearable smart ring we’ve covered here at Digital Trends, it should rather well be the only with the best collection of use-cases.

“Initially, the idea was to develop an emergency SOS product,” co-founders Vigneshwar Kg and Ajeem Khan informed Digital Trends. “The [original] idea was to go with an SOS panic button in the shoe, but it is not often everyone likes to wear the same kind of shoe everywhere. So we started thinking what else can we do. Then we came up with the concept of an SOS feature in a ring, since most women and men use rings, and rings are even more deceptive: [A potential attacker] will never know when you call for help. But then, would you buy a product that has only an SOS feature in it? Maybe not. So we began to brainstorm what else can be included. After many prototypes, implementing various concepts, and our team’s hard work, emerged the Xenxo S-Ring.”

At the time of writing, the crowdfunding marketing campaign has two weeks left, even if it has already raised greater than 10 occasions its unique investment function. As ever, we provide our usual warnings about the risks of crowdfunding campaigns. But if you need to pledge your hard earned money, you’ll head over to the team’s Kickstarter page. Prices get started at $179, which additionally contains a couple of USB dongles and a one-year guaranty. Shipping is about to happen in January 2019.