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Sad to see the quality of the content from Lumafield slowly going down. Feels like the content got less technical after they moved it from "scan of the month" to their blog, and now it feels like the descriptions are just slop, not matching the scans themselves.

Examples:

- Each window is sealed under a thin polymer layer, balancing optical clarity with biocompatibility while preserving the ring’s continuous, scratch-resistant exterior. <- they're on the interior of the ring, and I'm assuming if they're polymer, they're not very scratch resistant.

- This flexible board architecture allows the Oura Ring to maintain its circular form as well as distribute heat [...] <- what heat? And how?

- The charging coil runs along the ring’s outer circumference [...] <- scan shows a small coil on the inside, not running along the circumference

- [...] we can easily visualize the deployment channel and insertion mechanism that guide this filament to its precise depth and angle. <- I can't see the insertion mechanism.

- spiral geometry <- the Bluetooth antenna isn't spiral. Nor does it communicate "through the user's skin"?

- miniature microphones (visible as small cylindrical cavities) <- they're rectangular.

 help



Also I'm doubtful that the needle in the CGM penetrates only "the top skin layer" given that it was around 1 cm long.

Even discarding the factual contents the sentences appear to be AI.

But especially nonsense like ”allows the Oura Ring to maintain its circular form as well as distribute heat” is what you get when you RLHF your chat bot for lazy students cheating on homework.




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