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Prince Harry wears one.
So do Jack Dorsey, Jennifer Aniston, and Jill Zarin, former Real Housewife of New York.
How does Kim Kardashian West sleep at night?
“Okay WHAT??”
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“I thought I was killing it at this Oura ring game….I guess not.”
NASCAR drivers wear them.
Chris Paul wears one (Will Smith and Shaq are investors in the company).
“Looks like a tracking machine,” observed former Laker, now Wizard, Kyle Kuzma.
And he’s absolutely right.
I wear one too and that is exactly what it is.
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My ring sits knuckleside on my right hand pointer finger, in a little titanium embrace.
It is silver and plateaus at the top, but its underside reveals its true intentions.
Along the inner band glow a series of sensors, laid like jewels.
There is a 3D accelerometer to track movement and three thermistors to measure body temperature.
I, like Gwyneth, thought I was killing it at this being-alive game.
Now I know, with diamond clarity, that I am not.
My Days With the Oura Ring
I wake up and Oura’s dominion begins.
Usually I score in the 60s proceed with cautious optimism.
Anything lower than that, and Oura makes gentle suggestions about how to take it easy.
in a state of unsustainable stress.
For the next few days, I lazed about on different surfaces, fat-catlike.
Then, it’s true: I gradually felt better.
“Go easy,” the ring gently cautions.
“Your resting heart rate was above average, which means you’re not fully recovered.”
It takes me a few minutesto fully metabolize the ring’s advice before I proceed to obey it.
After months of wearing it, I can confidently discuss my heart rate variability and skin temperature.
The ring promises rest, but it trades in awareness.
I know more about myself than I ever have before and all I did was slip it on.
The Lore of the Oura Ring
The Oura ring was forged over the flames of the greaterwellnessindustry.
It can plunge to the bottom of a (100-meter-deep) lake and keep working.
The ring is designed to be worn “24/7,” according to the company.
Upon learning this, I realize I break nearly all of these rules.
am I reminded that I live under its all-seeing photoplethysmographic eye.
A recenthaircutbecame unexpectedly intimate after I noticed the glint of a silver Oura on the finger of my stylist.
She’s been having trouble falling asleep, you see.
You could call Oura the ring of knowledge.
Do I feel better?
Has this feedback changed my behavior at all?
It’s all right there on the Oura interface.
Like many technologies of its kind, the Oura is designed to get smarter.
It might even become useful in the current public health climate.
I spoke to a lead researcher who expressed great enthusiasm for the technology’s potential for mass data research.
At one point, he somewhat cautiously likened it to the Enlightenment.
And before long, our conversation drifted to sleep.
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