Good rings are now not novel. A number of hidden superpowers, nonetheless, may make them attention-grabbing once more.
Most gadgets are more and more centered on biometric monitoring. The Aivela Ring Pro goals to face out with stealth gesture and contact controls. With a stealth flick, swipe or slide of the finger, you may management music playback, modify quantity, set off the digital camera, advance slide decks, scroll and extra in your telephone.
Launched at CES 2026, the Ring Professional resembles lots of its rivals, together with the Oura Ring and Samsung’s Galaxy Ring. There’s solely a lot you are able to do with ring design in spite of everything. It has the acquainted metallic (scratch-resistant) end, a barely thicker prime profile and sensors lining the inside. The first visible cue indicating one thing totally different is a small diamond-shaped engraving on the heart, which alerts the placement of the touchpad.
The Ring Professional has a built-in touchpad that may be programed to manage your telephone remotely.
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In line with the corporate, the Ring Professional helps eight contact instructions and 6 gesture controls, designed to scale back the frequency of customers needing to succeed in for his or her telephone or smartwatch.
Well being monitoring, nonetheless, remains to be a core a part of the expertise. The Ring Professional focuses on long-term development monitoring, together with sleep evaluation, exercise insights, menstrual cycle monitoring and greater than 13 core well being metrics. The app additionally has a built-in AI advisor that means that you can talk about developments and metrics with a stay AI knowledgeable. The ring is waterproof as much as 100 meters with an IP68 ranking, and rated for as much as seven days of battery life.
The Aivela app has an AI physician you may chat with stay to research your well being metrics.
The Ring Professional is launching on Kickstarter for $299, however is at the moment on sale for $179 for late pledge backers and already has greater than 5,000 backers as of publish time. The corporate says there are at the moment no extra month-to-month prices tied to the app providers, which is one other benefit over rivals.
Whereas we noticed the ring on display on the CES show floor, now we have but to check its options, and it stays to be seen whether or not its gesture controls show helpful in on a regular basis use.
On paper, no less than, Aivela is giving the sensible ring class a distinct spin, shifting it from passive well being monitoring towards extra energetic management.
