Gadgetory

hey guys it's Lauren but with the verge reporting from CES and we're taking a look at misfits newest wearable this is called the misfit ray and the first thing you're gonna notice about the Ray if you're familiar with misfits other activity trackers is that it doesn't have a circular design this was misfits first kind of tubular design here and it was made this way so that it could sit next to other devices on the wrist like a wristwatch or a SmartWatch and basically sit flush against it and you wouldn't have to wear two things that have a circular design or a larger display on your wrist so this is really meant to be kind of an accessory activity tracker that's always been misfits value proposition and now that the company is a part of fossil they're probably gonna be making a lot more stuff that's in this Fame all right so let's talk about what this thing actually does like a lot of other misfit trackers it will track your daily activity levels it'll track your steps it will track distances doesn't have GPS but it uses an accelerometer to track distances and it will track your sleep shares all that data to Misfits mobile app it also works with misfit link which is Misfits separate app for basically controlling a bunch of different stuff in the home smart home products light bulbs music that kind of thing and it integrates with the IFFT app so that you can basically program this thing to say you tap it and you want it to do something it will do that through the IFFT and integration this little LED light here is is a Misfits notification system basically misfit doesn't use displays and so this is the way that you get notifications from your smartphone it also tells you your activity levels if you tap it and they don't wanna flash this twice you've maybe you're halfway to your activity goal if you tap it and flashes four times closer to your daily activity goal and then it's basically programmed to show you different colors for different types of notifications battery life is always a big thing with wearables and misfits value proposition has always been and we go long on battery life they use coin cell batteries this has three button cell batteries that should get you about six months the misfit race ships in March of this year and this version will cost $99 basically a hundred dollars this is a sport band it's a rubber band so it's a little bit less fancy than a couple other models you can also buy one with a leather band for a hundred and twenty dollars so that is the misfit ray in a lot of ways it's kind of your standard commodity activity tracker in terms of what it can do and what it senses and all that stuff but missed us trying to make something that's a little bit more fashionable than maybe some of the other activity trackers on the market with the idea that if it's not fashionable you're not going to wear it