There isn’t a scarcity of how to trace your well being these days. You’ve acquired rings, earbuds, telephones, wristbands, watches, and this factor that scans your pee, simply to call a couple of. Crowded although the sector could also be, there’s all the time room for another wearable. Only a small health-optimizing gadget as a deal with—no, significantly, like, actually small.
The Lumia 2, a $250 good earring that’s formally launching as we speak, claims to be the world’s smallest wearable. With a weight of simply 1g, Lumia may really be appropriate in planting that very tiny flag. It makes the 3g to 5g Oura Ring look massive, and the 30g to 40g Apple Watch Sequence 11 look completely huge.
Don’t be deceived, although; the scale of the Lumia 2 betrays a fairly large function set. In response to Lumia, its good earring can do a number of what widespread wearables like Oura and its costly good ring can do, together with sleep monitoring, cycle monitoring, blood circulate monitoring, and even offering a each day readiness rating. In reality, Lumia says its good earring may even handle to broaden on a number of the capabilities of good rings and smartwatches on account of its distinctive positioning in your physique, which is to say, pressed proper towards your head.
The Lumia 2, in response to the corporate, can “constantly monitor real-time blood circulate to your head, giving anybody on the spot perception into how blood circulate impacts vitality, focus, and psychological readability.” In different phrases, Lumia is especially effectively positioned to trace what’s known as cerebral blood circulate, a extra scientific manner of describing how blood flows to that massive thoughts meatball you name a mind. There’s already proof that it legitimately does that. In a examine through the Journal of the American School of Cardiology (JACC), Lumia’s effectiveness was already measured utilizing a Doppler ultrasound, and its good earring is seemingly the actual deal. That being stated, neither the Lumia 1 nor the two is FDA cleared but, so take that into consideration.
You will have seen that there’s a “2” subsequent to this good earring’s identify. That’s as a result of there really is a first-gen mannequin, however the unique Lumia was geared totally in direction of medical sufferers, significantly these with power blood circulate problems like postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) or folks with lengthy Covid who expertise “mind fog.” With the Lumia 2, the corporate is bringing its good earring to the plenty, which means you don’t need to have some type of ailment to purchase one and be among the many first pioneers of good earring expertise.
To match that broader launch, the Lumia 2 is available in a number of types, together with “huggie hoops,” cuffs, and studs, and some totally different finishes, together with gold, silver, and clear. It additionally attaches to any push-back earring, in response to Lumia, and the cuff model doesn’t even require your ear to be pierced. The Lumia 2 itself is made with non-allergenic supplies like platinum and titanium, and there’s even a swappable battery pack, so that you don’t need to take away it to cost. Talking of charging, Lumia says you’ll get between 5 and eight days of battery life per pack, and the good earrings (they’re offered in pairs, however the health-tracking module is worn solely on the left) will be worn whereas showering. They’re supported through a companion app on iOS and Android.
My largest query right here isn’t whether or not Lumia 2 works. I feel it most likely does primarily based on the obtainable proof. How the good earring feels pressed towards your head all day and even if you sleep, nonetheless, can solely be decided by carrying one, and that’s not one thing I’ve perception into but. Consolation questions apart, on paper, the Lumia 2 makes good earrings really feel so much much less laughable than they might in any other case be, however possibly that’s simply my undiagnosed mind fog talking.
Should you’re able to dive headfirst into the good earring world, Lumia says the Lumia 2 will probably be obtainable in 2026, however there’s no particular launch date but. Lumia will begin by promoting its good earring within the U.S. and Canada, although it says “extra international locations” will comply with. You’ll additionally need to pay a $9.99 subscription payment as soon as you purchase the good earring for entry to all your well being metrics, which is a bummer, however sadly, not remarkable within the well being wearable world.
