
We've seen at least one device that could be called a "smart ring" already: the wildly successful NFC Ring.
But the Smarty Ring, currently accepting funding on Indiegogo, takes
the idea about five steps further. It's a smartwatch, more or less,
that's made into a ring form factor. Though it's not quite as capable as
something like the Pebble, and nowhere near as powerful as the watches
from Sony or Samsung, the idea is surprisingly attractive.
Basically, the Smarty Ring
is a bit of curved circuit board, an LED screen (or two), a tiny
battery, a diminutive speaker, and a Bluetooth 4.0 radio sitting inside a
deceptively nondescript stainless steel ring. The full version of the
device includes an always-on clock face, a series of permanent
notification icons, and music controls molded into the circular housing.
As far as capability goes, the ring functions as a clock (with multiple
time zones, a stopwatch, and a timer), accepts or reject calls (though
not on the ring itself), trigger your phone's camera, control music
playback, play an alarm when your phone leaves Bluetooth radius, and of
course, get notifications from all the standard communications and
social apps.
I've got to say it's an intriguing little design. The ring itself is
completely delayed and waterproof, and it charges wirelessly on a
custom-build pad. The creators are already committed to both iOS and
Android apps which will manage the Smarty Ring's functions in pretty
much the same way that current smartwatch apps do. It will be made to
order in full ring sizes from 5 (15.7mm diameter) all the way up to 15
(23.83mm diameter), which should cover just about any potential
customer. Best of all, the ring actually looks good - it's not exactly high fashion, but it's not going for the Dick Tracy meets Star Trek look either.

The Smarty Ring has already reached its $40,000 Indiegogo funding
goal, and at the time of writing it's sitting at just over $120,000. A
basic "Tracker" model without any alert or control functions will cost a
$50 pledge, a Clock version with the added time and alarm functions
costs $70, the Remote version with the Clock and music controls costs
$100, and the full-function model will cost you $175. Estimated delivery
is April of next year.
But hold your horses. The creators haven't actually shown any working
models. True, they've got a PCB design and a pretty good idea of how
everything is supposed to work, but all the photos on the Indiegogo page
and everything in the video is rendered or mocked-up. That doesn't
inspire confidence in the product, let alone the timetable - even
smartwatches with near-finished hardware designs take a lot longer than
four months to go into full production. The campaign also uses
Indiegogo's flexible funding option, which pays the creators whether or
not they reach their goal. Lastly, there's no information about the
people or company behind the project anywhere - not on Indiegogo and not on the company web page, which incidentally has a domain registered with a third party proxy.



None of these observations prove that the Smarty Ring isn't real, but
they don't bode well, either. The project is funded, so it will go
forward whether you get a in a pledge in the next 29 hours or not. I've
backed plenty of crowdfunded projects before, but I'm inclined to let
the current 644 backers take the risk on this one. I hope it comes to
fruition.
Source: Indiegogo via Ars Technica
2015-07-10 zhengjx
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