Casio’s first smart ring has innovative features like a stopwatch and flashing alarm

Not to beryllium outdone by its longtime rival, Casio has announced its ain integer ringing ticker that brings much functionality than Timex’s wearable that debuted past month. Created to assistance commemorate the 50th day of Casio getting into the integer ticker business, the CRW-001-1JR volition beryllium disposable successful Japan starting successful December for ￥19,800, oregon astir $128.

Although the tiny watch’s lawsuit is conscionable shy of being an inch successful size, Casio has managed to compression successful a retro six-segment LCD surface that tin show hours, minutes, and seconds. The ringing besides includes 3 functional buttons that tin power further features similar displaying the day oregon the clip successful a antithetic clip zone, and a stopwatch.

The ringing watch’s surface adjacent has a light, and an alarm relation that volition flash the show alternatively of playing an audible sound. It’s powered by a azygous artillery that Casio says volition support the waterproof ticker moving for astir 2 years but is besides easy replaceable erstwhile it does die.

To accurately recreate the plan and intricate details of the larger integer watches the ringing is based on, Casio says the wearable is manufactured arsenic a azygous portion utilizing a metallic injection molding process that starts with powdered metal. As a result, dissimilar Timex’s ticker ringing that features a stretchable band to accommodate antithetic users, the CRW-001-1JR is permanently a US size 10.5. If your fingers are smaller than that, Casio includes a mates of spacers to amended the fit. If your fingers are larger than that, you’ll request to find immoderate different mode to cheque the time.

Last year, Casio released a postulation of ringing watches featuring designs inspired by immoderate of the company’s astir iconic integer timepieces from the past 50 years. Unfortunately, nary of them were functional, truthful it’s bully to spot Casio pursuing up with a ringing ticker that really works. For the 75th anniversary, possibly we’ll adjacent get a tiny calculator ringing watch.