Forward-looking: CES may be looking a bit shaky right now, given how many companies are pulling out, but that's not stopped others from confirming products that will exist on show at the event. One of these is health house Movano, whose first product, the Movano Band, will debut at CES 2022.

As y'all've no incertitude guessed, the Movano Ring is a health-focused wearable designed to compete with the $300 Oura ring. However, the company emphasizes that information technology volition be one of the "about affordable wellness devices," so it'll presumably exist cheaper than its rival.

The ring will measure out a slew of wellness information: heart rate, heart charge per unit variability (HRV), slumber, respiration, temperature, claret oxygen levels, steps, and calories burned. Rather than just presenting the information as a list of stats, Movano'southward app shows how information technology relates to a wearer'southward overall health. The example shows how users lower their chances of developing type two diabetes after exercising v days in a row.

Movano is also carrying out trials using radio frequency engineering in the hope that the ring could somewhen monitor blood pressure level and even blood glucose levels. A non-invasive method of measuring the latter would undoubtedly exist welcomed by the millions of type one, 2, and 3c diabetics who vesture a constant glucose monitor (CGM), which measures levels via a needle permanently inserted in the torso—they tin can be uncomfortable, very expensive, and hands knocked off.

Apple tree and Samsung are long rumored to be working on like glucose monitoring tech for their corresponding future smartwatches, but the concern with a non-invasive method is that it won't be as accurate equally measurements using blood or interstitial fluid. Precise readings are essential for people with diabetes to avoid hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) and hyperglycemia (high blood glucose).

Movano CEO Dr. John Mastrototaro, who was involved in developing the start CGM, says the ring was designed with women in mind; it'due south smaller and sleeker than the Oura ring. He adds that although the Movano Ring won't have FDA clearances, the aim is to eventually become Form Ii designation, writes The Verge.

The Movano Ring arrives in beta class in the second half of 2022. "We're aiming for both a medical and consumer focus — the intersection of these 2 fields as opposed to i or the other. We desire to have the expect, feel, and affordability of a consumer device with the accuracy and reliability of a medical device," says Mastrototaro.