Technical characteristics
How the ring works
The essentials — what it works with, how you control it, how it charges, and how it fits. Honest about what's still on the bench.
Connectivity
The ring joins the smart home you already have — no hub of its own. You set it up and shape its gestures in the V1 companion app; day to day it lives inside the ecosystem you already run.
| Protocols | matter over thread — the ring joins your home's low-power thread mesh as a standard switch. bluetooth is used during setup only; day-to-day control runs entirely over thread. |
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| Works with | Home Assistant — development-tested today. Apple Home and Google Home — certification pending. provisional |
| You need | A thread border router (most modern hubs and some phones have one) and the free V1 companion app for setup and configuration. |
| Control model | Local by design — gestures map to scenes, lights and devices on your own network, with no cloud round-trip required. |
Room awareness
The ring can tell your home which room you're in, so a single gesture does the right thing in the room you're actually standing in. provisional
| How it feels | Press in the bedroom and the bedroom lights respond — not the whole house. The same shortcut works in every room. |
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Wireless charging
The ring has no charging port and no contacts — nothing to line up, nothing to wear out.
| Method | Wireless charging: set the ring on its pad and it charges. |
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| While charging | The pad shows the ring's battery level and charging status. |
Gesture input
Buttons plus a tap sensor, combined into a rich but learnable set of gestures — each one you can feel without looking.
| Buttons | Three domed buttons under a seamless soft-touch surface — single, double, triple and long presses. |
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| Tap / knock | A built-in accelerometer turns a knock of the ring against a surface into its own gesture. |
| Combos | Buttons and knocks combine — "press 1, then knock twice" is its own first-class gesture. |
Battery & power
A tiny curved cell, and a ring that sleeps between the moments you actually use it.
| Battery | Curved 15.5 mAh cell, shaped to hug the inside of the band. |
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| Battery life | Weeks of typical use is the target — this is an estimate until it's measured on the finished ring. provisional |
Design & sizing
The design target: a metal band with a seamless soft-touch inner surface — one continuous piece, with no ports, seams or gaskets. Final construction is being worked out with the manufacturing partner. provisional
| Materials | Anodized-metal shell; moulded soft-touch membrane with domed buttons — target construction, pending manufacturing validation. provisional |
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| Sizing | Prototype inner diameter ≈21.5 mm (US size 12). |
Software updates
Wireless updates are planned — the goal is software that stays current without ever plugging anything in.
| Delivery | Updates will arrive wirelessly. Not enabled on current prototypes. planned |
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| Protection | The update pipeline is built for signed, end-to-end encrypted images so only genuine software can run on the ring; production signing keys ship with production hardware. planned |
Be first in line
Join the wait-list and we’ll email you when the V1 Ring is ready — nothing else.