A ring that talks back.

Why a ring needs a voice

A one-line answer fits on a screen; most answers do not. Reading a long answer from a ring would mean holding your hand in front of your eyes. Hearing it is quicker, and keeps your eyes on the room.

How you hear it

• At your ear. Raise the ring to your ear, as you would hold a phone, and its tiny speaker plays the answer close to you.
• In your earbuds. With earbuds that support Bluetooth LE Audio, the answer plays in your ears instead.
• Not at all. In a meeting, the buzz and the first line on the screen may be all you need.

Hearing you, too

Speaking into a ring on a moving hand is harder for speech recognition than speaking into a phone. When Lychnos is not confident it understood you, it does not guess: it buzzes and asks you to say it again. If you spoke too far from the ring, it can tell before sending and asks you to hold it closer. How we tested this: can a ring understand a mumble?

What we still have to prove

How loud and clear the speaker is on a real ring, and what it costs in battery, we will measure on prototypes, and we will publish the results before we ask you for the rest of the price.