I lost my finger but I still love the ring though.
I’m going to show my age again, but why the fuck would you want a smart ring? What do they even do that a phone can’t?
Also lithium batteries are crazy dangerous, it’s wild that we just have these non-removable batteries that randomly swell and explode after 5-10 years just hanging out in everything.
Reading pulse and o2 level more reliably than a smartwatch I think and as far as I know that’s it. No other reason to not just get a smartwatch instead.
I’m going to show my age too and say smartwatches are worthless garbage.
Hey now it lets me know when I got a text message while my phone is on silent, counts my steps, and monitors how long I sleep. It also cost me like 40 bucks.
I put my phone on silent for a reason…
I honestly hated the feature that put my notifications on the watch when I briefly had a smartwatch. The wrist buzzing is far worse than having a sound or vibration on my phone. On my cheap watch, the sleep tracking was also laughably inaccurate.
Bonus points if your employer harvests all that biometric data to sell it to your health insurance company, and they use it to deny coverage because you didn’t take enough steps during Q2
There has only ever been one good smartwatch, the pebble, and it failed as a product
It was actually doing pretty well as a product, and they were literally weeks away from releasing the extemely promising new version, but they got hostile-takeovered by Fitbit who was somewhere between threatened by their success and strip-mining the company for patents or staff.
Fitbit immediately shut down the new release.
Then Fitbit got bought by Google, who obviously has their own interests to maintain in that market.
Garmin watches are pretty great. The only piece of running gear other than shoes that has actually made me faster.
I really like my garmin watch and it doesn’t have a subscription. I use it to monitor my blood pressure because of my POTs. It’s good at warning me if I’m about to pass out.
I’ll wait to judge that until people actually have them in hand
I’ll let you know if they live up to the original once I’ve got mine in hand 🫡
I had a full set of dice for DND on mine! And I could shuffle through songs. That was about all I used it for
I was thinking that a smart watch with integration for Obsidian or some other note taking app would be nice, you could tell it to take notes while driving for example.
Just tape an ipad to the steering wheel
Most cars already have one at this point
Smartphones while we’re at it
Smart phones do more harm than good, but they do have some utility.
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They have a lot of potential when they’re not mini phones on your wrist like an apple watch. My garmin instinct 3 solar’s probably the best $400 I’ve ever spent
⠀- battery life is great. around 2-8 weeks without solar charging. with a couple hours of daylight per day, it can be practically infinite if you don’t use the GPS/flashlight too often
⠀- flashlight is surprisingly bright (and a low red one when I don’t wanna wake my roommate)
⠀- the sleep tracking, resp rate, heart monitor, and stress estimate from HRV are very useful as someone with insomnia and mental health issues
⠀- I can quickly start a breathing exercise when I feel like I’m having debilitating anxiety
⠀- has a GPS: when I’m hiking I just download the trail map onto my watch (it buzzed when I went off course!), or start a breadcrumb line to find my back, or use the altimeter/save reference points, etc.
⠀- ref points will point towards the location with a simple compass and the distance remaining. I have my dorm and a bunch of spots around my campus saved on there; helped me several times when I was drunk with a dead phone
⠀- I have ADHD time blindness, so I have things like a shortcut to start a 8 min timer when I shower (it’s waterproof)
⠀- my watchface has the time of my next calendar event/class and the temp/weather. useful info from a quick glance at my wrist when getting ready
⠀- I have some notes saved it on with some passwords and info I might neednot as life changing but still cool:
⠀- I can make my phone ring when I can’t find it
⠀- detailed fitness and hike tracking, intensity workout minutes, etc
⠀- I can use the compass “sight n go” to point towards something I see up ahead, estimate the distance, and create a GPS ref point in that direction. Used it mountain hiking the other day to make a beacon towards the top of a hill
⠀- it has garmin pay, which works anywhere tap/NFC is accepted
⠀- it’s super customizable, so I spent a few hours doing pixel art and making a subtly minecraft themed watchface. the XP bar shows my steps, hearts shows my “body battery” (estimate from things like sleep, movement, and heart rate), combat bar shows the “move bar”, inventory shows a torch for bluetooth and more, etc.
⠀- setting alarms that make my wrist vibrate instead of an obnoxious alert. more peaceful way to wakeup
⠀- I made a sundial ring thingy with an arrow rotating it over 24 hours, pointing to the current daylight-time (sunrise, solar noon, blue hour, astronomical dusk, etc)
⠀- I almost always have text notifications off, but I started using it at work when I’m not allowed to use my phone
⠀- I set a button combo to control the music from my phone when i’m driving or can’t get to my phone
Sounds like information that would be really useful while boarding a plane
If accuracy is that important to someone, why not just use a chest strap?
because this is a lot more convenient than a chest strap
So when you want expensive and ridiculous for the sake of accuracy, but not quite all the way?
It’s also more conspicuous, which I suspect is the real appeal.
I’ve no idea, but many of the middle aged people around here have fallen for the oura ring grift. Then they spend all their time worrying about their optimal sleep or heartrate variability and what their ring 'tells" them.
Just another step in the neoliberal self-governance through consumption thing.
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What next? Samsung galaxy cock ring?
that shit better vibrate on command
"Hey your phone is ringinOHMYGOD
“Calling…Daddy.”
i saw the ads for this and was so hyped that these freaks were getting rich idiots to pay for jewelery with points of failure. impeccable
I have a normal friend who doesn’t like smart watches, but who wants to monitor his sleep/activity for health reasons.
It’s not all rich idiots who pay for this.
You can buy smart rings for like $30 though
And really get to deal with a ticking yime bomb around your fingee
The difference between a $30 ring and $400 ring is $370 of profit margin
You can’t get a ticking time bomb ring because the US doesn’t have that level of manufacturing capability
Yeah, he probably got one of those then. I kinda thought they were all expensive af but I never looked into it.
analog jewelry is so lame according to BrooklynRizzler on tiktok, the most sponsored influencer of all time.
you need to upgrade your old grandpa jewelry to the latest smart jewelry so you can look up your jewelry on your phone and get instant, real time notification from the AksesorizeApp to let you know when you’ve just shit yourself.
Real “James Bond trading his Rolex for a Seiko digital watch in Moonraker” energy.
Almost my whole paycheck for a ring finger potential explosive amputation?
Here in the third world we still trust knives and work hazards. Clean, effective, cheap. And my country’s public health system would do it for free and with the proper safety and medical guidance.
Automated in-flight finger removal, another innovation by Samsung technologies
You’d think people would have learned after the Note 7 fiasco, but here we are
Why does this person think samsung has some kind of magical solution to shrink the battery again or something? They need to go to ER and get it cut off asap.
What if cutting it makes the battery explode/initiate that termite-like fire reaction?
Just don’t let it explode smh my head
What does this thing even do? It has no screen so its just like, an expensive pulse monitor? I’m so concerned about my heart metrics I need to pay a third of rent towards measuring it constantly with the Samsung Finger-Amputator Mk3, wirelessly connected to my Samsung Personal Spy Device?
Yes
I made sure to get a wedding ring that doesn’t fully close because I’m scared it’ll get stuck somehow i don’t even really know how.
Maybe i should stick a bomb on it…
smart rings only do that when they’re stressed out
i do not understand people who wear rings.
“yeah im gonna put this constructing metal thing on my finger until it gets too tight to take it off and someone needs to cut it with a saw”
we should all be wearing Wedding Stickers instead
same reason we wear makeup, get piercings, get tattoos, wear hair accessories, dye hair, etc.
we like to decorate ourselves, it’s fun and looks niceat the end of the day im just a really funny lookin monkey, i like to adorn myself with pretty things
Gets too tight? That never happened to me
damn that is a bad take
It’s not a take he just doesn’t understand.
Wedding chastity belts is where it’s at
Please. Wedding butt plugs would make weddings so much more fun.
God I hope we get video of the amputation.
You are going to need to go into the parking lot and find a Cybertruck immediately
Oil and floss
I wanted to see if he lost his finger
https://xcancel.com/ZONEofTECH/status/1973019200563069276
Update:
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I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌
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was sent to the hospital, as an emergency
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ring got removed
You can see the battery all swollen.
Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again.
Finally got home after way over 50h of flying/travelling 😅
Samsung reached out to me:
- refunded me for my overnight hotel
- booked me a car to get me home this morning
- collected the ring from me, for further investigation
My finger is also doing well, aside from some small marks that I’m sure will heal in a few days.
Some extra things to mention:
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the battery of my ring has been acting very weird for many months (stopped lasting for more than 1-1.5 days and at one point, didn’t even power on after being charged for a full day, until I charged it for 2 days)
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when this swelling incident happened, it wasn’t even charged
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many other users have been experiencing similar battery life issues - old.reddit.com/r/samsung/comment…
old.reddit.com/r/GalaxyRing/comm…
- one user also reported battery swelling, a few months ago old.reddit.com/r/GalaxyRing/comm…
Personally, I think there’s something going on with the battery inside many (if not most) Galaxy Rings.
According to these posts on Reddit, Samsung has been offering free replacements but even these ended up having the same issue, later on.
Samsung told me they’ll inform me of the investigation findings, so will keep you guys posted! Hopefully they diagnose the issue and permanently replace all the affected units.
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