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  • πŸ’ Casio made a ring that tells the time
  • πŸ“ It’s made from a single piece of metal and comes with a classic digital face
  • πŸ“± It’s not a smart ring, which means you can’t track your health with it
  • πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Casio will sell it in Japan to celebrate 50 years in the watch business
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

It was either that or show that picture of Bin Laden again.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Yeah what on earth? It's not a health monitoring ring alternative, and doesn't try to be. It's a watch in ring form.

Smart rings/health monitoring rings are not the norm, I don't see why any other ring would be automatically compared to them.

It's not even like many people have heard of that brand of ring, so it's not even the kind of clickbait that would attract people, like mentioning an Apple product or something would be.

I'm not much of a ring wearer, I don't even wear my own wedding ring, but this one actually looks pretty neat to me. I hope the battery is as easy to replace as they claim it to be.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wth is this article, the ring is being made in celebration of them as a watch company. It's a cute little gimmicky ring because making an anniversary watch is exactly what people expect them to do.

They didn't make a ring to compete with the Oura or Samsung's whatever. The article even mentions the Timex ring watch which was similarly made because they're celebrating 170 years of being in the business. Why even bring up smart rings/watches at all?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm about to release a not so smart AR Headset. Super light, It won't generate fake TV screens or give information like the apple vision pro, but it will just be tinted to help bright sunlight be less bright. Still brainstorming what to call this low tech VR/AR technology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

This is golden.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Ring watches are a thing. Seen them for a while but usually they look like rings and have a flap or something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

aweee it's so smol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

You can now give someone the finger and tell them that’s the only time you have for them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Okay I misread that title as "Casio made a One Ring alternative"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Won't track your health, Won't prevent aids. May make you invisible to the seen realm, and draw the attention of unseen beings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Beware the Great Eye of Google. Ever it roams, ever it watches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

I want this ring.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Please focus on affordable dumb TVs – thanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

They made awesome portable TVs like uh, 30 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

It took me years to realize that my childhood Casio keyboard played Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and that’s why I liked the song

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Uhm it looks very odd, like you somehow have miniature wrists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

Seems rather bulky for a ring also. I wonder if it snags on a lot of things while using your hands normally.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

I like Casio watches, but yeah I'd pass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I kinda like it but rings bother me more than watches