RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/115933366310717879

The #Exploration Company is building a reusable space capsule that will initially ferry cargo to the #ISS. #Orbex was founded in 2015 and is developing a small launch 🚀 vehicle called #Prime.

#Nyx #Oura #TEC

Here’s something to think about if you’re considering a smart ring as a fitness tracker like the Oura ring or RingConn: it can’t be resized.

If you’re buying it as a way to track activity as part of a plan to lose weight, it will be loose. If you buy one during the hot summer, during the winter it may become loose — or the reverse if you buy it in the winter. There are spacers to help with fit though.

The other thing is battery life as the tiny batteries inside will degrade.

#fitness #gear #oura #ringconn

Kommt der Apple-Ring 2026? Was die Gerüchte bisher sagen
Apple taucht bislang in keinem Vergleichstest für smarte Ringe auf – doch das könnte sich ändern. Seit Längerem kursieren Hinweise darauf, dass Apple an einem eigenen Ring-Wearable arbeitet.

Vom Warten zur
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/feature/kommt-der-apple-ring-2026-was-die-geruechte-bisher-sagen/
#Feature #Zubehr #Apple #AppleRing #AppleWatch #Fitness #Gesundheit #Oura #Patente #SamsungGalaxyRing #SmartRing #Wearables

Samsung sospende il Galaxy Ring 2, focus su Watch 8
#AnelloIntelligente #AnelloSmart #Brevetti #CES2026 #GalaxyRing #GalaxyWatch8 #Indossabili #Oura #OuraRing #Samsung #SmartRing #TechNews #Tecnologia #Wearable

https://www.ceotech.it/samsung-sospende-il-galaxy-ring-2-focus-su-watch-8/

My best friend and I are planning a "tracker fast" the week of the Christmas holiday. #SleepTracking

We both use the #Oura ring, and lately, we've both been pretty disgruntled with it. I mean, it's fun to complain about it and share sleep scores? But it's also not fun.

They've made some changes recently to the app that were stupendously annoying (the FUCK is up with that serif, tiny font??), and I feel like somebody at some level in that company seems to be enshittifying everything about it right now just to hang on to their job or... whatever.

I always considered Oura to be one of the more ethical sleep and metric tracking companies, mostly because they're based out of the EU (I think Finland). But I learned lately that they have a department of defense contract here in the US and are basing part of their operations out of Texas now. 😬

Also I am an anti-authoritarian, and if fucking R F K (or whatever his name is) wants us all to wear trackers? I'm gonna do the exact opposite.

Those are not the reasons why we're going to do a fast, though.

We're going to do a fast because we feel like we're getting diminishing returns, and are only chided, picked on, and discouraged by the app. Also, they're starting to lean heavily into AI, and y'all know that I'm against that.

The things I thought I needed to track have been very steady lately, and the metrics I was worried about four years ago have also been steadily improving over the last few years of tracking.

I feel like I'm out of the crisis that prompted me to begin tracking, and I would like to relearn what it is like to assess my sleep on my own terms when I wake up in the morning rather than get yelled at by an app that thinks I'm doing things I can't even control wrong.

Also, I disagree with how it tracks sleep. It will tell me how long it thought I was in bed (never taking into consideration that I am a reader and that is what I do before I go to sleep), but then it will tell me that I only got X number of hours of actual sleep, and thus will ding me because I was "in bed" for nine hours, but I only got seven hours of sleep.

That is demoralizing! It also thinks I only need seven hours to be healthy, and I disagree vehemently. I used to be a 9 to 10 hour person, and I now that I am an old, I believe I need at least 8 hours of sleep a night. Technically, in my mind, I'm getting that? But the ring tells me differently. I'm tired of it.

I have considered wiping every last bit of my data and starting over with my ring, but I think this weeklong fast will be the first step to deciding whether I'm going to do that or whether I'm going to break up with it entirely and sell it.

It is a vast, vast improvement over wearing an Apple Watch, though. I only wear the Apple Watch when I need to intentionally track exercise.

Oura is shit at automatically tracking whether I am exercising or not. Though, to its credit, it does track low-impact activity automatically and fairly well. It calls everything I do like that "housework" (sometimes I go in and change it).

If everything it thought I was doing was housework, though, my house wouldn't look like this! 🤣🤣🤣