1 Up Close with Ring: maybe Good, Undoubtedly Gigantic
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Within the wide world of crowd-funding unicorns, good rings have been hustling for the top of the heap. Amongst them is Ring, a gesture machine that promised to allow you to sometime control your personal residence with a sequence of arcane finger wags. I simply noticed it in motion and looks as if it works however god damn does it look dumb. Ring works by pairing to your cellphone, at which level you need to use the Ring app and a series of pre-programmed or custom gestures to do things like call an Uber to your location, or activate and off good appliances by hooking them as much as the Ring Hub. I didn’t have a chance to attempt gestures with a paired unit, but I saw a few of Rings’ of us showing it off. They made it look surprisingly succesful