The Happy Ring is the first wearable designed to measure stress and mood 24/7, according to its creators Happy Health, a start-up co-founded by among others, Sean Rad, one of the founders of the popular dating app, Tinder.
The Happy Ring uses custom-designed biometric sensors and proprietary adaptive AI to capture brain signals from the peripheral nervous system and translate those into real-time objective measures of mood state.
The ring features a proprietary, custom-designed EDA sensor to measure activation of the sympathetic nervous system as it happens. The ring also has sleep tracking features and four skin electrodes, four wavelengths of light, three-axis movement tracking, and two temperature sensors.
"We're all experiencing more stress than ever before, yet we lack the tools to better understand and improve how we feel," said Paul Berns, another co-founder and chairman of Happy Health. “And while there are many wearables that help you on your fitness journey, they widely ignore the mind and its effect on your overall well-being. The ability to measure and understand our emotional state will help us identify the habits that result in better health.”
Happy Health has created a membership payment model for the device, with the ring provided for free after users sign up for membership tiers that begin at $20 per month.
According to Happy Health, the wearable is based on decades of neurocognitive and psycho-affective research by engineers, neuroscientists, and clinical psychologists, such as Dr Jim Hudziak, the director of clinical sciences at Happy Health.
In his role at Happy Health, Dr Hudziak “has helped lead the team towards objective, real-time, real-world measures of stress and emotional health.”