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Smart ring reads your sweat to measure glucose, ketones, and more

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Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a smart ring using osmosis that continuously measures six biomarkers—alcohol, glucose, ketone, lactate, vitamin C, and uric acid—in sweat, transmitting data in real time to a smartphone app, marking what they describe as the first true biochemical counterpart to existing smart rings.

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