We might be in the fourth iteration of the Oura smart ring but that’s no reason to shun the previous generations. They’re still fantastic smart devices by our standards. Thanks to some of the better Black Friday deals, and early Cyber Monday deals now’s a great time to save on the Oura ring. Our top pick is the Oura Ring Heritage — saving you $50. As the name suggests, it’s a ring rather than something that goes around your wrist, and it looks super stylish. Such style also comes with some impressive health and fitness monitoring features. But you’re going to need to be fast as the Oura ring deals end soon.
The health insights of an Oura Ring are quite vast. For starters, Oura Rings know our chronotype, if we’re morning people or night owls. While this isn’t too impressive (you likely have an idea of your chronotype already) it can give us scientific backing for our assertions that, no, we aren’t ready to get out of bed in the morning. Honestly, that’s something I need to help me prove I’m not a morning person. I don’t like morning people, or mornings, or people. I digress.
Where it gets more interesting is how the Oura Ring sees things like your skin temperature, pulse, and Oxygen levels and then combines them with sleep quality measurements to compute things like your daily activity readiness. If our Oura Ring 3 review hadn’t been conducted by a male, he’d also have been able to report how it uses these factors to predict periods, too. They have a unisex design and come in a wide variety of sizes, to fit any finger.
This Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer brings the Oura Smart Ring Gen3 Heritage or Horizon down to $249. Since the Heritage is usually $299, and the Horizon is usually $349, you’re saving up to $150 on these deals. Those deals are available across several retailers including Amazon , Best Buy , and Oura's own website .
Either way, these are some great deals on a unique smart wearable that we know, for a fact, will give you quite an interesting experience. Don’t miss out on these deals if you’ve been eyeing one of Oura’s smart rings because we don’t know how long they’ll stick around or when they’ll be back, if ever.
The OnePlus Buds Clip are a new pair of open-ear earbuds built around a simple convenience. They join Sony’s LinkBuds Clip in the growing ear-cuff category, but either OnePlus bud can go on either ear.
Sensors recognize how the earbuds are being worn and route the audio channels accordingly. There’s no label to check before putting them on, and the feature also works when only one bud is used.
We buy fitness bands and activity trackers to keep tabs on our exercise, but it is easy to forget to start tracking or switch modes when moving between different activities. For Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, that could soon become a lot less annoying, as Google is rolling out a major upgrade to automatic activity tracking that can recognize more than 100 types of exercise, up from just 10 before.
Google first showed off the improved tracking earlier this month alongside the Fitbit Edge. It is now coming to Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5, and Google claims the added context behind the system makes workout detection nearly twice as accurate while cutting missed activities by more than half. Fitbit Edge will support it too.