Leading smart ring maker Oura has just announced the Oura Ring 5 – the world’s smallest smart ring that’s built on 12 years of innovation and health sensing insights.
Oura Ring 5 will offer a more comfortable fit with its most compact form factor ever.
It is crafted from lightweight non-allergenic titanium and, despite its slender form factor, offers its most innovative hardware yet, along with the new software to not only track but also suggest actionable insights.
“Oura Ring 5 is a big step toward our vision of giving everybody a voice,” said Tom Hale, chief executive officer at Oura.
“By reimagining Oura Ring 5 to be smaller, easier to wear, and pairing it with our most advanced software yet, we’re making it possible for many more people to wear Oura every day—and to benefit from the personalised, predictive health insights that come with it.”
Oura has demonstrated the finger is an optimal place to measure your health signals.
Arteries in the finger offer a cleaner pulse signal to the Oura Ring 5’s onboard optical sensors that are one hundred times stronger than at the wrist.
The result is a clearer and more reliable way to capture biometric data and deliver more accurate readings.
The ring has precision-engineered low-profile sensor domes for better skin contact and more powerful LEDs to offer clearer and more consistent readings, plus 12 stronger signal pathways that deliver greater accuracy across more finger types and skin tones.
Oura Ring 5 is 40 per cent smaller than Oura Ring 4 and has been completely redesigned in every area including mechanical, electrical, optical, battery, and sensing architectures.
And with the thinner and lighter design Oura Ring 5 will look and feel like a regular ring on your finger and make it attractive to even more customers.
“Oura Ring 5 is the most significant leap in smart ring history. To make something 40 percent smaller without sacrificing an ounce of accuracy, we had to rethink every assumption — the sensors, the battery, the architecture, the geometry of the ring itself,” said Holly Shelton, chief product officer at Oura.
“The result is the most capable wearable we’ve ever made—small enough to fit seamlessly into everyday life, and significant enough to set a new standard.”
Oura Ring 5 is not only the company’s smallest ring but its most scratch-resistant ring yet, thanks to an extra-strong physical vapour deposition coating.
The new ring is also dust and waterproof to 100 m (IP68), which makes it suitable for everyday wear, including during workouts and travel.
Oura Ring 5 will introduce live activity tracking so users can start a workout and follow their progress in real time on their smartphone.
Users can easily track their pace and distance during activities like running, cycling, and strength training while also being able to see their heart rate in real time through lock screen widgets.
The Oura Ring 5 also has new notable tracking of women’s health and activities including menopause insights and hormonal birth control.
The Oura Ring 5 is available now and priced at $799 for premium finishes: gold, stealth, brushed silver, and deep rose, and $649 for base finishes in silver and black.
Oura membership is 9.99 a month or 109.99 per year with members able to switch among multiple Oura Ring 4 and Oura Ring 5 devices on a single account at no additional cost.
Stay tuned to Tech Guide for a full review of the Oura Ring 5 in the coming weeks.
