If you want to improve your sleep quality, tracking your sleep is not enough. Many other factors, like your physical activities, daily rhythms and lifestyle choices, influence your ability to get restful sleep. ŌURA helps you understand the effect of these factors on your sleep quality.

Your sleep quality and your lifestyle also impact your ability, or readiness, to perform during the day. ŌURA helps you understand how your sleep and activities contribute to your readiness. It can even help you identify which daily practices are most effective at helping you recharge.

During the day, the ŌURA ring automatically measures your physical activity and time spent sitting. The app delivers actionable recommendations to adjust the intensity, duration and timing of your activities based on your readiness to perform. It also offers activity-related suggestions to help you get more restful sleep at night.

When prompted via the app, the ŌURA ring can also measure your physiological response to activities during the day. This enables ŌURA to learn what practices help you recharge, and to offer suggestions that help you maintain a state of readiness throughout the day.

ŌURA is designed to help maximize your readiness – your ability to perform at your best both mentally and physically. It’s a game-changing perspective on how to go about your life, in order to achieve top performance.

The Readiness Score is a simple measure designed to help you identify days that are ideal for challenging yourself, and those that are better for taking it easy. The score, which is displayed as a percentage, is generated using all of the sensor data, physiological signals, sleep and activity patterns that are monitored by ŌURA.

Sleep is one of the most important variables to get right in order to help sustain both cognitive and physical performance. A night with little deep sleep would have negative impact on your score because deep sleep is important for physical recovery. A good amount of REM sleep is a strong indicator of mental recovery. Variance in your resting heart rate as well as changes in your autonomic nervous system reactions over the time indicate how well your body and mind recharge from the challenges of daily life.

The Readiness Score is just the tip of the iceberg. ŌURA also provides actionable recommendations that help you perform at your best. It even lets you dig into detailed sleep, activity, and readiness dashboards to identify patterns and correlations between your lifestyle choices, your readiness, and sleep quality.

We designed the ŌURA ring to be stunning, comfortable, and simple. Our goal was to create a wellness device that matches seamlessly with your style and daily life. The sophisticated and minimal design will look great anywhere, from the beach to the office, from the yoga studio to the opera and cocktail party.

We chose the ring form factor because it is comfortable to wear for long periods of time, meaning you can wear ŌURA all day and all night. A ring also fits snugly against your skin and is the most convenient place to accurately capture the body signals necessary for measuring and interpreting your sleep, physical activity and performance related indicators.

ŌURA ring is made with a premium ceramic compound that has a beautiful and smooth feel, and comes in a glossy or matte finish. It is also scratch proof and waterproof, so you can take ŌURA anywhere.

The ŌURA ring works without demanding your attention, or distracting you and your lifestyle. The ring knows when you go to sleep, and when you wake up, when you are active, and when you are sitting. It uploads data to your phone automatically. If your phone is not available, it can collect and store data for up to three weeks, as long as you keep wearing and charging it. It’s that simple – no actions are required from you.

We want the ŌURA ring to go with you everywhere, and to let you do everything you would normally do.

The ŌURA app is a powerful companion to the ring. It delivers personalized and actionable recommendations, and visualizes data regarding your sleep, activity and readiness. It also lets you control settings of your ŌURA ring, and access support content.

The ŌURA app is easy and intuitive. The sleep, activity and readiness dashboards are designed to let you deep-dive into your daily data. You can also dig into visualizations highlighting longer-term trends and patterns.

ŌURA’s groundbreaking recommendation engine functions like a virtual coach committed to improving your sleep quality, performance, and readiness. Over time, it learns about your unique rhythms and provides more personalized advice.

Some of the most exclusive sports cars are stealth black. This inspired us to create a very limited edition of ŌURA Stealth Black.

Manufacturing a dramatic stealth black surface requires an additional level of precision and pushes the limits of manufacturing feasibility. Perfecting the surface requires meticulous, skilled human attention to microscopic details, hence the radically limited quantity and price.

We are ready to ship in November 2015 

ŌURA is already much more than just visions and ideas!

Our team has worked hard for over two years, together with our experienced partners. We are past the prototyping phase and already focusing on mass production capability. The ŌURA ring has undergone rigorous testing of reliability and durability, and the time between now and shipping will be mostly spent on fine-tuning the software and user experience. We manufacture ŌURA in Finland, in one of the most advanced electronics manufacturing locations in the world, close to our company’s main R&D site. This ensures maximal speed, rapid improvements and premium production quality.

We’re excited to announce our first collaboration with We Are Curious – a personal data platform built around a growing community of individuals who have questions about their sleep, health, and wellness.

With your pledge you will have the option to link your ŌURA data to the Curious platform where you can track additional factors—set up as ‘tags’ that you can easily track—and see how they influence your sleep quality and performance. Whether you’re interested in your daily consumption (caffeine, alcohol, sugar), sleep aids you might be trying (valerian, melatonin, acupuncture) or other factors in your environment (barometric pressure, CO2, pollen count), the Curious platform enables fast and easy manual entry or automated import, as well as graphing and other analytical functions. You can share your questions and discoveries with other Curious users who share your interests.

Collaboration of ŌURA and We Are Curious makes it also possible for you to share your ŌURA data and lifestyle related data with world-leading sleep researchers. Sharing is optional, but if you choose to do so, you will contribute to creating a whole new level of understanding about sleep and performance in the context of normal daily life.

We have a team with extensive hands-on experience in Health & Wellness, Medtech, Mobile/Telecoms/ICT industries, and in consumer electronics and software including over 20 years of experience in creating algorithms for the world’s leading heart rate monitors and activity trackers. The team has strong expertise in applying science, conducting research, bringing out successful products and services, and cultivating continuous customer satisfaction. We couldn’t be more excited about what we are doing at ŌURA. We look forward to seeing the ring on your finger and hearing your thoughts on it. 

Petteri Lahtela · Product 

Bringing together his passion on wellbeing, physiology and creating products that people love, Petteri is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in creating market leading high-tech products in mobile telecom, health and wellness sectors as well as building international businesses and market entries in dozens of countries.

Kari Kivelä · Technology & Design 

Driving the pioneering work for design and miniaturization at ŌURA, Kari has previously led global software development at Nokia for 10+ years. Also, as a jewelry start-up entrepreneur Kari is uniquely familiar with design and form factor elements of a ring. 

Hannu Kinnunen · Science & Algorithms

Responsible for the science making ŌURA the most advanced wearable wellness device in the world, Hannu has 15+ years of experience at heart rate and activity monitoring pioneer Polar. Hannu is behind most algorithms used in Polar products today and credited in dozens of patents and scientific articles relating to heart rate based signal processing, biosignal detection, and analysis of activity, training, recovery and sleep.

Harri Laakkonen · Software 

Bringing intelligence into the world’s first ring-size wellness computer by creating the firmware software, Harri is a signal processing, machine-learning algorithms and embedded SW development pioneer and serial entrepreneur with 25+ years experience in creating demanding high-tech products for global markets.

Markku Koskela · Hardware 

Creating innovative solutions for accessing body signals in high precision, Markku is an optoelectronics and hyperspectral imaging specialist with 20 years experience in creating demanding measurement systems and embedded solutions for global markets.

Ashley Colley · User Experience & UI Design 

Creating the ŌURA user experience. Ashley brings his 25+ years industry experience in User Experience, UI design and innovation to ensure that ŌURA is a delight to use.

Tommi Pyykönen · Supply chain & Customer care 

With his 20+ years of experience on multiple management fields, most recently in the global supply chain management of Polar, Tommi is now building world class supply chain and customer care approaches at ŌURA.

Virpi Tuomivaara · Comms

Virpi brings in her international experience in communications and various talents in dealing with people and delivering the key messages in creative ways.  

To arrive at the perfect design, we went through several generations of prototypes and managed to fit all this intelligence into a small, durable ring. Product development began over two years ago with technology studies and concept development. First industrial design mock-ups were fabricated during 2013. We managed to integrate sensors, electronics and battery to the first fully functioning ring prototype in spring 2014. User testing has been done in our team from the beginning of 2015 onward. Design of the ring and ring box were frozen in June 2015 after extensive electrical, reliability and environmental testing.

In an unprecedented way, ŌURA combines insightful jewelry design, elegance and ultimate wearing comfort with top tier science and technology to create absolutely unique user benefits. It is the first product of its kind – world’s first ring-size wellness computer and app that provide actionable recommendations to improve sleep, and optimize activity, towards better balance and performance.

We are all set to begin the volume production of the ŌURA ring and timely delivery to our backers in November. Before shipments start we will send you free of charge the complete size range (US6-13) of plastic fitting rings so that you can take your time on choosing your preferred finger for wearing your ŌURA ring and the ring size that matches perfectly with it. 

Additional note

ŌURA enthusiasts already exist in 60 countries. We will ship ŌURA worldwide, with the exception of:

– no shipping to the following countries due to US embargo: Iran, Sudan, Syria, North Korea (listed as not fully cooperating) – no shipping to Brazil due to challenges in customs handling.

Please note that shipping to any country outside North America and EU/EFTA may be significantly delayed or even cancelled depending e.g. on the feasibility of local product approval requirements or local import regulations. In a case of cancellation your pledge will be refunded by OURA.

Please note that there may be additional duties, fees or taxes raised by the authorities in your country. You may need to take care of them yourself when receiving the shipment.

Shipping & handling costs: US & Canada $10 rest of the world $25

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