Fit Gadgets: The Pulse Ring Heart Rate Monitor

Fit Gadgets is a weekly feature focusing on products and technology that will help you get fit and stay motivated or simply make life easier. It may even be a gadget that could help to save your life. From the mainstream to the obscure, I'll let you know what works and what doesn't.

Wondering what makes you tick or how fast you're ticking? Find out with the Pulse Ring, the smallest heart rate monitor I've ever seen. Okay, it's downright unattractive, but that's not the point.

It pretty much does the same thing as its larger counterparts (but with no chest strap required). It will track your heart rate and continuously display it on the small LCD display. It has a range of 30-250 beats per minute; mind you though, if your heart rate is in the 250 beats per minute range... well, er', you might want to slow things down a bit! The ring also has a timer and stopwatch functions making it ideal for you fitness buffs.

No, it's not Total Recall nor does it have a GPS system but it is still design ingenuity doing it's best. The fact is, like most monitors, this useful little device does it's job by answering life's most pressing question: Am I working my butt hard enough?

Basically, it's small, compact and Ideal for basic pulse rate monitoring.