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Title: Forget the wrist: Motiv's ring puts a fitness tracker on your finger
Post by: HCK on January 05, 2017, 04:05:15 pm
Forget the wrist: Motiv's ring puts a fitness tracker on your finger

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<p>If you can’t stand fitness-tracking bands or smartwatches, maybe you should put a ring on it.</p><p>Not just any old ring, obviously—a waterproof, Bluetooth, titanium activity-tracking ring with a built-in accelerometer, LED lighting, and an optical heart rate sensor just like you would find in any top-of-the-line fitness band. It’s called Motiv (http://mymotiv.com/), and it might just be the most subtle activity tracker on the market.</p><p>The $200 ring, which was announced this week at CES and starts shipping in early March, aims to make fitness-tracking totally unobtrusive. You can wear the low-profile, 8mm ring constantly—to bed, in the pool, while showering—just like a wedding band, although it needs to be charged every five days.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3154087/consumer-electronics/forget-the-wrist-motivs-ring-puts-a-fitness-tracker-on-your-finger.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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