- Circular’s Ring 2 is a new smart ring coming in 2025
- The company has just revealed that it will add blood pressure monitoring by the end of the year
- It also plans to add blood sugar trends in 2026
Circular Ring 2 is Circular’s brand new smart ring coming in 2025, and the company has just announced two massive health functions that we can expect to be added after launch.
Ring 2, which was revealed at CES and arrived later in the year, comes to those like Oura Ring 4 and Samsung Galaxy Ring as a challenger to the best smart ring on the market.
Not only will it include atrial fibrillation detection and ECG (a first for smart rings), but the company now says it also gets blood pressure and possibly blood glucose monitoring.
“The Circular Ring 2 will soon help you track blood pressure and blood glucose trends over time-What gives you deeper insight into your health in a completely non-invasive way,” the company announced on March 17.
Circular says that an over-the-air update to Ring 2 coming “by the end of 2025” will add monitoring of blood pressure trend.
“By measuring pulse transit (PTT) – when it takes for blood to travel through your arteries – the ring can estimate BP trends in a way that is both practical and reliable. A quick measurement (between 30 seconds to 2 minutes) will give you valuable insight into how your daily habits affect your blood pressure,” says circular.
But that’s not all Ring 2 could get an even more exciting feature next year, and it’s one that Apple has been trying to crack for years.
A smart ring with blood sugar monitoring?
“Circular is also working on something that is truly groundbreaking – blood glucose trend tracking,” the company said.
At another over-the-air update “by the end of 2026”, Circular says its function will allow users to monitor fluctuations in blood sugar levels without finger dots of constant glucose monitors.
The feature will allegedly use advanced machine learning to analyze the way light interacts with blood through its PPG heart frequency monitors to help understand how factors, including dietary and sleep impact on glucose levels.
Of crucial importance says the circular function Won’t Replace traditional glucose monitoring for those with diabetes or who need to track micro -Intraday variation. Rather, it will provide “trend insights to help users make more informed health choices.”
Either way, it’s still a massive health upgrade and makes the circular ring 2 perhaps the most exciting health and fitness laptop this year, more than Apple Watch Ultra 3.
Apple is expected to add blood pressure monitoring that can detect hypertension to its series 11 and Ultra 3 later in the year, but whether it will turn circular to the punch is anyone’s guess.
Accuracy and efficiency remain key issues, but Circuly’s message is the most exciting development in smart wearables for many years. Circular Ring 2 is live now on Kickstarter, prior to launch later in the year.
