![]() The Ray is very well suited to sleep tracking – it’s light and comfortable so that you’ll barely notice it’s there, while its six-month battery life means you’ll never need to charge it overnight. Your sleep patterns are also tracked, with the Ray logging your restful sleep, light sleep and the time you’re awake throughout the night. And yes, the Ray is waterproof, so swimming is an option. The way Misfit points relate to different activities is highlighted on the Today screen of the app, where you’re told what you need to do in order to hit your daily goal – that could be an hour of walking, 20 minutes of running or 30 minutes of swimming. While that’s hardly ground-breaking, it’s worth mentioning that Misfit does seem to build incredibly accurate devices. The Ray will count each step you take throughout the day, and from that data, it will estimate the distance you’ve travelled and the calories you’ve burned. But for many potential users, what’s here is likely to be more than enough. Misfit Ray review: Fitness trackingĪs you might have guessed from the single LED, the Ray only has the most basic features built into it. You’ll get around six months of usage from a set of batteries, so you shouldn't have to worry about running out of juice midway through the day unless it really is running on empty. Instead, it runs on three 393 disposable cells. Like the other Misfit trackers, the Ray doesn’t have a rechargeable battery built into it. This type of accessory range has already proved very popular with the Misfit Shine, and it’s probably safe to say that the Ray will lend itself to accessorising even more effectively. Given that the Misfit Shine and Shine 2 have a habit of popping out of the wrist strap when you’re wearing it, it’s good to see that the Ray is extremely secure no matter how active you’re being. Misfit is also developing a host of accessories for the Ray allowing users to customise the colour and style of their strap, or even turn the Ray into an activity tracking pendant. The bundled strap is constructed from a translucent plastic that’s surprisingly soft and flexible, and you fix it to the Ray using two 8mm spring bars much like a traditional watch strap. It’s incredibly easy to adjust the strap for a comfortable fit – you just move the catch along one side to the desired position, and the other part then slots through a loop and snaps onto the catch. You could argue that equipping the Ray with a single LED was an example of style over substance, but given the beauty and simplicity of this device, I’d say that Misfit made the right call. While the 12 LEDs on the Misfit Shine 2 make it easy to tell the time, and ascertain how close you are to your daily goal, the single LED messages transmitted by the Ray require a degree of code breaking that Alan Turing would be proud of. There’s a single LED mounted in the Ray, which is designed to convey a variety of information, but it’s unlikely that you’ll remember what all the different combinations of flashes and colours actually mean. Combine that with a meagre weight of just 8g with the batteries installed, and I often forgot I was even wearing it. The cylindrical design also makes the Ray very smooth and comfortable against your wrist – in fact, I’d say this is quite possibly the most comfortable tracker I’ve ever worn. The bundled plastic strap is mounted inside the cylinder giving the device a real bracelet feel that’s still masculine enough for a male user, while being aesthetically pleasing enough to mix it with whatever complementing wrist jewellery women might wear. ![]() Misfit has certainly delivered on its brief to create a tracker that’s more suited to the wrist, and, as is to be expected, the Ray is a beautiful piece of minimalist kit. The Ray itself is an anodised aluminium cylinder finished in either Carbon Black or Rose Gold. Prior, the Misfit Shine was a fitness tracker that could be connected in multiple ways, but looked and felt bulky ion the wrist - thankfully, the company has addressed the design with the Misfit Ray. Misfit has taken a different approach and decided to focus on the design and aesthetics side of things, to create a wearable device that people will be inclined to wear on a daily basis. Manufacturers of fitness trackers have been known to cram as many features as possible within their devices. ![]()
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