Half my wearables measure me. The other half actually do something to me.
Ring on one hand, watch on the other, scale in the bathroom. All three are doing the same job when you strip it back. Take a reading, hand me a number, my move.
Then there's the other pile. Heated wrap, the pulse thing clamped to my desk chair, a friend's compression boots he swears by. None of those measure anything at all. They put something into you and that's the entire product.
I've got an SKG one in that second group and it took me embarrassingly long to notice I never check anything after using it. There's no number waiting for me.
The part I keep chewing on is which pile I actually stayed consistent with.
The ring gave me a year of genuinely good sleep data that I looked at maybe four times. The dumb one I use most days, because using it IS the whole interaction. There's no homework attached.
Does the second group have a name yet? Everything I read still buckets them under recovery gear or personal care, which feels like where we were filing smartwatches around 2013.
Genuinely might just be describing appliances with straps on them, idk.