The best smart rings of 2024 to help track sleep, wellness and more
It’s been a slow march to relevancy for the smart ring. For years, the Oura Ring has stood as the only go-to smart ring for tech enthusiasts and celebrities wanting to track their sleep and wellness, with the device adorning the fingers of everyone from Kim Kardashian to Will Smith and Mark Zuckerberg, who all swear by the Finnish company’s wearable.
While the Oura has seen off competition from rival Motiv (which launched its ring in 2017 and canned it three years later), the market is about to get a bit busier for 2024. In January, Samsung announced the launch of a new wearable called the Galaxy Ring, putting Oura on notice.
A week prior to the announcement, a whole swathe of tech firms, from Amazfit to Movano, unveiled their own smart rings at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, in the background, companies such as Ultrahuman and Circular have been plugging away at their own smart rings, successfully bringing second-generation models to market.
Tech firms are betting big on what they believe is the next big innovation with smart rings – wearable devices that can monitor your health metrics, provide real-time sleep analysis, and introduce a convenient way to make payments, all in a sleek, unobtrusive form factor that fits around your finger. Even Apple is rumoured to be working on that could work with the .
