Nina Raemont

2 days ago | zdnet.com | Nina Raemont

ZDNET's key takeaways The RingConn Gen 2 is a subscription-free smart ring that retails for $300. It monitors your sleep, activity, stress, and vitals, and it's got a marathon battery life. The only downside is the user interface feels underdeveloped. Most smart rings these days claim to offer marathon battery lives, but often fall short of their promise. Many smart rings claim to last a week's worth of batter,y but only make it to five or six days before dying on me.

3 days ago | zdnet.com | Nina Raemont

ZDNET's key takeaways At $200, the Sony Ult Field 3 speaker is a mid-range powerhouse with great sound and ample bass. With a 24-hour battery life and features that encourage speaker syncing, the Ult Field 3 would be perfect for regular hosts and music lovers. I can't think of anything wrong with this incredible speaker, and its price competes with other speakers of this size and spec. Under this cloud of rain and gloomy April weather, it's hard to imagine brighter, active days to come.

3 days ago | zdnet.com | Nina Raemont

Maria Diaz/ZDNETIt was another exciting week for fitness tracker news, with Google dropping several hints about what's coming in future smartwatch and health tracker updates. Also: Oura Ring vs. Apple Watch: Here's which health tracker is right for youIf you want a quick roundup of some of the biggest stories of the week in the health and wearables space, I've kept my eyes on the news so you don't have to. Keep reading for the latest.

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Nina Raemont

While Apple gets its blood pressure monitoring ducks in a row for the potential release of an Apple Watch Series 11 with BPM capabilities in September, Asus just introduced a smartwatch with those functionalities. Asus has unveiled its VivioWatch 6 Aero, the world's first fitness tracker that can measure blood pressure and electrocardiogram (ECG) at the touch of a finger. The watch instantly measures blood pressure and ECG (used to detect atrial fibrillation) through wristband sensors.

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Nina Raemont

Closing your Apple Watch's activity rings could be good for your health. That's according to a new data analysis in the Apple Heart and Movement Study, which found positive associations between activity rings' closure and sleep, heart health, and mental well-being.