Pebble Is Making a Sensible Ring for Saving All Your Fleeting Ideas

Pebble’s subsequent act is a brilliant ring with a built-in microphone for recording your ideas. Pebble smartwatch maker Eric Migicovsky, who recently reacquired the Pebble brand (now underneath his new firm Core Units) and revived the e-paper-based wearable, calls the $99 Index 01 good ring an “exterior reminiscence” on your mind.

Not like the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic, Samsung Galaxy Ring, and numerous different multifunctional good rings designed to trace your well being and health, Pebble’s Index 01 is a single-purpose wearable.

In a blog post detailing the Index 01, Migicovsky says it’s as “small as a marriage band,” made from stainless-steel, is water resistant, and is available in three colours.

The good ring has a single button that you may press and maintain to activate the microphone. It doesn’t require an web connection or a subscription charge. After activation, you “whisper your thought,” which is then despatched to your telephone and “added to your notes, set as a reminder, or saved for later evaluate.”

As you’ll have guessed, the title “Index 01” is called after the finger—your index—you put on it on. This allows you to use your adjoining thumb to press and maintain the microphone button, which Migicovsky says has a “satisfying click-feel”—excellent for one-handed use. He says that he had initially made it an app for the Pebble smartwatch, nevertheless it couldn’t be used with one hand and he additionally discovered “lift-to-wake gestures and wake-works” to be “too unreliable.”

Right here’s how the Index 01 works, in line with Migicovsky. Audio recordings are first saved to the interior reminiscence, streamed to the Pebble app in your telephone (iPhone or Android), transformed to textual content, after which an on-device giant language mannequin (LLM) turns that into an motion resembling including it to your observe and reminders.”

What the Index 01 is just not is an “AI good friend thingy or always-recording system,” notes Migicvosky. Clearly, he’s not a fan of AI devices like the controversial (and sucky) Friend pendant.

It’s a easy gadget constructed with privateness at its core. Migicovsky says the “connection between ring and telephone is encrypted,” and since all audio is processed on-device and despatched to your telephone, no recordings are ever saved within the cloud. He says, “an non-obligatory cloud storage system for backing up recordings is on the market,” nevertheless it hasn’t been constructed but.

As I scrolled down Migicovsky’s detailed FAQ on the Index 01, a number of issues stood out to me. I like that the good ring’s battery can final “for years”—about 12 to fifteen hours of battery life, when you use it 10 to twenty instances a day for 3 to 6-second ideas. Nevertheless it’s weird that the Index 01 is a single-use system, that means it doesn’t have a chargeable battery. Migicovsky says that including charging circuitry would have made the Index 01 bulkier and likewise dearer. As a substitute, customers are anticipated to ship the good ring again to Pebble for recycling; they’ll be notified through the Pebble app to order one other ring. Migicovsky estimates, primarily based on the aforementioned utilization frequency, the Index 01 ought to final round 2 years earlier than it wants recycling. For those who use it much less usually, the battery could last more.

Pre-orders for the Index 01 start today at a discounted $75, however that can improve to $99 after delivery begins in March 2026.

As I stated earlier, the good ring will are available in three colours (polished silver, polished gold, and matte black). You’ll get eight sizes to select from (6 by means of 13).

This being a Pebble system—constructed on the rules of open supply and DIY—customers will be capable of hack and customise the Index 01. Migicovsky says you’ll be capable of program the button for single and double presses, add your personal voice actions, and even ship audio recordings to your personal app or server. It’s all very a lot within the Pebble spirit.