Health
A £79 Smart Ring Just Landed – And There’s No Subscription
Smart rings have a pricing problem. The technology is brilliant — passive, discreet, genuinely useful — but the entry fee has been sitting somewhere between “considered purchase” and “absolutely not”, and then there’s usually a subscription stapled to the back of it. Sekonda has just walked into that gap with a £79.99 smart ring and…
Read MoreApple Will Now Tell You Your ‘Health Age’ – And Sell You A $119 Blood Test To Prove It
Apple’s redesigned Health app pairs your Watch data with a $119 Quest blood test to work out whether your body is older or younger than your birthday says.
Read MoreOver 600,000 Women Have Rated Their Menopause With Oura
Oura is expanding its Menopause Impact Scale into clinical care through ten health partners, after more than 600,000 members completed the assessment since May.
Read MoreWUKA’s First Teen Period Starter Kit Has Landed In Tesco
WUKA’s first Teen Starter Kit is in 372 Tesco stores for £25 until 29 September – two pairs of Stretch period pants, a Rebel Girls puberty guide and sensory-friendly design.
Read MoreInside triplebond: The Biohacking Club Where Recovery Is Social
triplebond has opened in Marylebone with London’s first social wellness club format, a rooftop pool, hyperbaric oxygen, cryotherapy and a 500-biomarker health concierge.
Read MoreThe Oura IPO Is Coming – And The Smart Ring Just Became A $16 Billion Business
Oura is targeting a US listing as soon as September at a valuation north of $16 billion. With a customer base that is 70% women, the smart ring just became the most valuable idea in wearables.
Read MoreFrom Sleep Data to Statement Jewellery: 21 Smart Ring Jackets We’re Obsessed With
In many ways, 2025 was the year of the health tracker ring. Oura has sold more than 5.5 million rings globally, while the category grew 88% between January and July, according to data from Circana. Smart rings are now outpacing smartwatches, with shipments up 49% year-on-year, compared to just 6% growth for smartwatches, according to…
Read MoreThe Supplement You Wear: Inside The Transdermal Collagen Patch Trend
The collagen economy runs on powders, capsules and a certain amount of blind faith – most of it dissolved in oat milk before 9am. Now a new wave of wearable wellness wants to skip your digestive system entirely and deliver nutrients through your skin. The science is genuinely interesting; the claims deserve a proper look.…
Read MoreMeet Nike’s Vibrating Slide: The Recovery Shoes About to Take Over Your Group Chat
Recovery is no longer the boring bit between workouts – it’s the main event, and the wellness economy knows it. Nike’s new Air Zoom Hyperslide puts heat, vibration and Air Zoom cushioning into one slide, which means the spa-industrial complex has now officially reached your footwear. There was a time – call it the Barry’s…
Read MoreSwipe to Conceive: Inside The App Matchmaking Strangers and Sperm
Every few years a piece of fertility technology arrives wrapped in the language of disruption, and you have to look hard at what is genuinely new versus old behaviour with a fresh interface. Y Factor – a new sperm donor matchmaking app that has launched in the UK – is squarely in that category. The…
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