The market’s first women-focused smart ring, the Evie Ring from Movano Health, is redefining the wearable category and taking “smart” to a whole new level with a unique band design, female-specific data interpretation, and AI-based trend analysis that goes beyond raw activity scores to improve users’ ability to understand and manage their health.
Evie received a 2024 CES Innovation Honoree Award, will begin shipping this month, and was featured at CES Unveiled in Las Vegas over the weekend.
The Evie Ring and companion app were designed from the ground up to provide a smarter, more user-friendly, women-focused experience, based on the most recent research on women’s biometrics and interviews with over 1,000 women to determine what they want in a wearable health ring; its innovative features include:
- Smarter form factor: Evie is the first smart ring with a small gap in the ring surface and slight flex in the scratch-resistant metal to accommodate daily fluctuations in finger size caused by hormonal changes and other factors, ensuring a comfortable fit at all times. Furthermore, Evie’s charging case is portable and can recharge the ring up to ten times on a single charge for convenient on-the-go use.
- Smarter sensor: The Evie Ring employs highly sensitive medical-grade sensors to optimize vital sign measurement on female fingers, which are smaller and have less blood flow than male fingers. Brighter and more efficient LEDs that emit more light improve optical signal quality, resulting in higher accuracy and repeatability with less battery drain.
- Smarter metrics: Evie includes an industry-first Daily Summary that aggregates each day’s activities and recovery into a single graphic for an at-a-glance understanding of that day’s performance, in addition to the individual activity and performance metrics provided by other wearables. The Daily Summary also dynamically displays the user’s progress toward her pre-set goals in a single snapshot and, for the first time, includes credit for factors such as getting enough sleep.
- Smarter data analysis: Evie searches for correlations across menstrual health, mood, energy, sleep, and activity using newer studies that consider women-specific factors such as hormonal changes and a custom AI engine. Whether it’s “We’ve noticed your mood improves when you get 1000 more steps than the average” or “Your sleep may be interrupted during this phase of your menstrual cycle due to a dip in progesterone,” these insights can help users modify their behaviors to optimize their daily routines.
- Smarter pricing: The Evie Ring costs $269 and does not require a subscription, keeping costs low over the life of the wearable. Evie is also eligible for HSA/FSA reimbursement.
Other notable features include a one-of-a-kind Spot Check function that allows users to see their pulse rate and blood oxygen levels at any time of day or night; the ability to log mood, menstrual symptoms, and other information that is then combined with vital sign data to help users understand how they’re feeling; and four days of battery life.
Moreover, enhanced menstrual health insights and additional visualizations of menstrual data will be added over the next few months, leveraging Evie’s AI engine to shed more detailed light on links between a woman’s cycle and mood, energy, sleep, and activity; My Health Report, allowing users to share key data ranging from sleep patterns and heart rate variability to spotting frequency with their healthcare provider; and automatic activity detection as soon as it detects movement.
Evie also intends to support Android devices beginning in the second quarter of 2024. Currently, the ring and companion app are only compatible with Apple’s iOS.
John Mastrototaro, the CEO of Movano Health, stated: The Evie Ring is much more than a fitness tracker. It’s essentially a health coach with medical-grade functionality, from the sensors we use to collect vital sign data to the fact that it’s built in a medical device manufacturing facility that meets FDA standards.
He continued: Add the focus on the nuances of women’s physiology, and it’s truly a game changer in the wearable space.
The Evie Ring is available exclusively at www.eviering.com in gold, rose gold, and silver finishes, as well as sizes 5-12, with a complimentary sizing kit available for those who don’t know their ring size.
