The tiny smart ring everyone's suddenly wearing

Over the last few years, a curious pattern has emerged in India’s health landscape.

- GAURAV GUPTA

Complete health loop

People who once relied on intuition, “I slept okay,” “I'm probably stressed,” “I think I'm eating well enough” now speak a new vocabulary. Words like “recovery,” “REM,” and “HRV” have moved from elite athletic circles into everyday conversations among office workers, parents, and students.

Behind that expanding vocabulary is a new kind of device — the Gabit Smart Ring — which has slipped into India’s health consciousness in a way older wearables never managed. It doesn't flash, buzz, or demand attention. It sits quietly on a finger, invisible until the moment one opens the app and sees a version of themselves they never had access to before. At its core is Gabit's philosophy: health is interconnected across the 4 pillars of sleep, stress, fitness, and nutrition. And it’s only this tiny device, the Gabit Smart Ring, that makes that integration possible by quietly blending into their lifestyle.

India, by most global accounts, sleeps poorly. Yet most people tracked only “hours in bed,” partly because people did not use wearables, or older wearables were bulky, intrusive, and hard to sleep with. The Gabit Smart Ring replaces this approach with something closer to an x-ray: deep sleep tracking, REM patterns and stress levels, activity score and more. The picture is often impossible to ignore, inspiring people to start taking actions around to improve their health.