Oura Ring Gen3 ($199, originally $263)
Surely you’ve heard of the Oura Ring — it may look like your average piece of jewelry, but it delivers real-time health updates via an app. The sleek wearable monitors sleep, activity, stress, heart rate, and more, and the rave reviews speak for themselves. As one reviewer wrote: “This ring does everything. It accurately tracks my sleep (can also detect sleep apnea), oxygen levels, steps, knows when I take a nap, when I truly go to bed, when I do housework, measures my stress levels, heart rate, and after a month, it calibrates your overall heart health score, chronotype, and resiliency. It also picks up when you are sick. I felt horrible one day and it picked up that my body was fighting something. That blew me away.” Our own tester loves it, too. Read more in our Oura Ring Gen3 review.
Editor Quote: “For me, the most useful application has been tracking my sleep. I don’t generally have an issue falling or staying asleep, but I do wake up tired often, as opposed to refreshed, energized, and ready to start the day. There are also lots of nights in which I don’t get as much sleep as I’d like, and I was curious to see how that would affect my next day. I found that, in fact, when I got a sleep score lower than 80, I did feel more sluggish during the day. Most notably, when my amount of REM sleep was suboptimal, I would wake up with that tired feeling I’ve become accustomed to.” — India Yaffe former shopping associate editor
