Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features
Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features Rob Beschizza 4:09 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: Casio Casio's CRW-H001 is a tiny retro-style watch for your ring finger, and the newest model has a few smart features to make it an alternative to models from Oura and Samsung. Added to the tiny gadget is monitoring of the wearer's heart rate, blood oxygen levels and body temperature. It tracks sleep, steps and menstrual cycles, and estimates calories burned through exercise.
- ▪Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features Rob Beschizza 4:09 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: Casio Casio's CRW-H001 is a tiny retro-style watch for your ring finger, and the newest model has a few smart features to make it an alternative t
- ▪Added to the tiny gadget is monitoring of the wearer's heart rate, blood oxygen levels and body temperature.
- ▪It tracks sleep, steps and menstrual cycles, and estimates calories burned through exercise.
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Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features Rob Beschizza 4:09 pm Thu Jul 30, 2026 Image: Casio Casio's CRW-H001 is a tiny retro-style watch for your ring finger, and the newest model has a few smart features to make it an alternative to models from Oura and Samsung. Added to the tiny gadget is monitoring of the wearer's heart rate, blood oxygen levels and body temperature. It tracks sleep, steps and menstrual cycles, and estimates calories burned through exercise. The data may be viewed on a companion smartphone app (perhaps essential, given the limitations of its retro-style display) and it vibrates for alarms or Bluetooth alerts. You get "four to six days" of battery life in use, according to Casio.
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