ABC Adelaide Evenings: what is a smart ring?

The smart watch may well be the typical way to track your health, but what if you don’t want a watch. What’s a smart ring, and can it do the same thing?

The smart watch may well be the typical way to track your health, but what if you don’t want a watch. What’s a smart ring, and can it do the same thing?

These days, technology is at your fingertips, but some of it can be taken more literally than others. Take the area of “smart rings”, a category that literally puts the tracking of your health within a few centimetres of your fingertips by placing health sensors on your fingers.

They’re like a smartwatch, except made to look just like a ring, and they can sure do some fancy things this year, as well. What’s new in the world of smart rings, and how do they work?

Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins ABC Adelaide Evenings with Paul Gough, also known as ABC SA & NT Evenings, talking tech from the 2 hour 40 minute mark (2.40.14) on the June 2 programme. Head to ABC to hear it all before the show is pulled down (usually a week or two later).