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Battery

The Ring Clock is powered by a single 8mAh battery – today’s latest phone batteries have capacities between 3,000 to 3,600mAh, or about 450 times this much. Having seen the tiny, bent battery on an unassembled unit, I can say that it really is quite incredible to hold in one’s hand such a tiny little piece of engineering and know it can power a device as clever as this. There are no plugs or connectors on the ring anywhere. Instead, it can be charged wirelessly on a circular dock – which should, in my opinion, be a little bit smaller so that it is easier to pack and carry when traveling. You just place the ring on its small protruding notch and it gets fully charged in a maximum of 2 hours’ time. One charge of the 8mAh cell lasts a week of normal use – the developers specify that at 50 activations per day – or 2 hours of constant use. Because it has been so much fun to fiddle with the spinning ring, and to check the bright, blue lights glow in the dark, the Ring Clock I reviewed has consistently lasted me a day; but then again, that is with a fair bit of fiddling and toying around.

Because there are no plugs or buttons, the time on the Ring Clock can be set via the charger. It has two large, clicky buttons that allow you to quickly and easily adjust the time – when holding down one of the buttons, the indications on the ring speed up, so setting the ring up takes but a few moments. Press and hold the two buttons simultaneously and you can switch between the two minute indication modes that I mentioned above – one where only one indicator lights up and another mode where all down to the last 5 minute markers are illuminated.