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Health monitoring rings are kind of exploding in popularity which would

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explain how ringcon who sponsored this video managed to raise 4 million dollar

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on Kickstarter for this their second generation smart ring I've been using it

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for about 2 weeks so the fact that it's here in the box is kind of a lie but

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it's no fun to do an unboxing if it's not in the box so okay you get

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the so you get the ringcon Gen 2 which is packed full of sensors we'll talk a

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little bit more about that in a minute but perhaps most importantly for now is

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that it is is thinner lighter and narrower than their last gen by about

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25% about 33% and about 12% respectively

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so wearing it on the recommended finger which is the index finger though you can

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wear it on your middle or your ring finger if you prefer is I would describe

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as reasonably comfortable enough you can

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see obviously it's a little bulkier than just you know my basic wedding band here

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but it never bothered me in day-to-day use see I can close my fingers together

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and have it not be pain which is kind of my Benchmark for that what else we got

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here some L documentation a USBC cable

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braided nice no wall wart though and

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their charging case which is actually kind of a big deal I really like this

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thing instead of having to do some fussy alignment it's clearly indicated how it

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goes on there's two little nubbin on the inside of the Ring which correspond to

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two little divots here and boom you're charging but you won't be doing that

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very often I was surprised to see that their claims of about 10 days of battery

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life on this thing actually held true I

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got a nice little notification hey it's probably time for you to charge it

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popped it on the charger and the best part the charger has another about 150

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days worth of battery on board so you only have to charge this case a couple

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times a year that's that's pretty convenient you know what else is

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convenient not having a subscription I know that's probably like a talking

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point for later after we've you know talked about what the ring actually does

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but that's a pretty big deal for me I don't know about you guys but I have

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enough subscriptions in my life and I don't need one for the you know blood

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oxygen level monitor that I wear on my finger uh oh let's talk about all the

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other sensors in addition to blood oxygen monitoring ringcon is

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particularly focused on nailing down undiagnosed cases of sleep apnea and

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they say they were the first ring to do that and they do all of this while

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staying ip68 waterproof I did not pay

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any special attention to this whatsoever over the last couple of weeks and it's

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alive so that's all I can really say about that oh wait no I can say more why

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don't we pull up the app and have a look at my health it's compatible with both

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iOS and Android and ringcon claims that

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their sleep apnea monitoring was found to be over 90% accurate which is pretty

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cool I did not turn on the Sleep apne monitoring but Belle who's been using it

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for two 3 weeks as well says he did turn

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it on do you have sleep apnea bill I

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don't you don't hey congratulations

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we'll look at Belle's Health First no abnormalities detected well that's a

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strong statement but he apparently doesn't have sleep apnea probably let's

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poke around in my Health Data shall we day one October 17th hey good job 100%

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activity go Linus uh is that good stress

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okay all right hey look at that normal normal stress oh okay so I'm low stress

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while I sleep but before I sleep my stress is improvable okay oh I see

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there's like a little there's a little Arch that shows your range yeah okay

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that's fair it's kind of cool that I can see the spikes for finding out about the

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power outage finding out about the setup issues and then giving my

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presentation no exercise records available time to start exercising dude

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I am way too lazy and disorganized to be like I am starting exercise now this is

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the type I am doing boop boop boop like

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no man they got AI or something they got to figure that out now one area where

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the ringcon seems to disagree with one of my other smart devices is in sleep

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and I have no idea which is more accurate out of the eight sleep mattress

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topper or the ringcon Gen 2 but it's

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clear that there are some strong disagreements when we look at data from

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the same day they're both kind of on the same page in terms of like when I got

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into bed and when I got up but the

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actual sleep stages are way off here's an example on this day my mattress says

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I had a lowquality fair night sleep while my ring says my Sleep Quality was

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good now ringcon allows you to subjectively rate your sleep and they're

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going to use that in order to give you a better evaluation over time but it's

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clear that just based on the raw data there can be disagreements between

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different smart devices about how exactly things were going so in summary

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I'd say the main pitch here is sleep and health monitoring without a subscription

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for people who don't want to wear a watch and or don't want to micromanage

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making sure that their watch is charged and on them whenever they're sleeping

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the 10-day battery life was a GameChanger for me in terms of compliance because a device like this is

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only as useful as your willingness to be wearing it all the time and that's

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something that I think that ringcon has done very well if you guys enjoyed this

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video thank you ringcon for sponsoring this look at the ringcon Gen 2 you guys

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can check it out at the link down in the video description and make sure that

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while you're down there you get subscribed to ShortCircuit