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Gucci has announced a new collaboration with Oura, remodeling the Oura Generation 3 health-monitoring ring into a luxurious accessory.

The Generation 3 ring was introduced late last year, offering a host of calibrations and updates with features that include live heart rate, sleep quality, and activity monitoring. Additionally, the device is water-resistant up to 100 meters, has a battery life of 4 to 7 days and can connect to Apple Health and Google Fit.

The Gucci redesign arrives in a black synthetic corundum band lined in interlocking G logos and braided trim in 18-carat gold. “This first-of-its-kind innovation celebrates your individuality from the inside out,” writes Gucci. “The special-edition Gucci x Oura Ring brings together Oura’s personalized health insights with Gucci’s legendary Italian style.”

The Gucci x Oura collaboration is now available here for $950 USD. The ring includes a lifetime Oura membership and access to the Oura app.Realme is back with the winning formula in combining anime with its smartphones. While the GT Neo2 saw a mashup with Dragon Ball Z, this new update joins Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto for a Shippuden makeover. 

Clad in orange and black to reflect our main hero, the phone sees all of the Neo3’s performance specs like a 6.7-inch AMOLED display, Corning Gorilla Glass 5, an Octa-core (4×2.85 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU, Mali-G610 MC6 GPU, triple font camera setup (50 MP, f/1.9, 24mm wide; 8 MP, f/2.3, 15mm, ultrawide; and 2 MP, f/2.4, macro), and the 16 MP, f/2.5, 26mm selfie cam. 

The complete special edition comes bundled in a ninja scroll and features details like the Uzumaki clan crest, Hidden Leaf Village forehead protector camera plate, color-coordinated accessories, a customizable Naruto phone case, special wallpapers, a 10,000mAh power bank with 33W fast charging, and Naruto-themed charging UIs — the SIM pin is also shaped like the Konoha leaf.

Priced at $415 USD for the 128GB RAM version with 256GB of storage, fans can expect this phone to drop on May 31.Casio G-SHOCK is expanding its virtual armor series with a new titanium timepiece dropping in July.

The series launched back in October with the GMW-B5000TVA1, a watch inspired by the powered suits found in anime.

This follow-up, the GMW-B5000TVB, continues the use of overlaid functional text and adds texture with TIC titanium coating, achieved here using a seven-stage process of coating, layered masking and laser engraving.

Once again bore holes through the titanium casing reveal the “resin buffering component” beneath, while geometric camouflage in black and brown ion-plating again suggest “the look of high-end virtual gear.”

The solar-powered GMW-B5000TVB features sapphire crystal glass, 200m water resistance, a smartphone link, five world times, five alarms, stopwatch and Multi Band 6 radio-controlled timekeeping.

The GMW-B5000TVB drops in July via G-SHOCK, priced £1,500 GBP (approximately $1,890 USD).Breitling has released a contemporary take on its historic Cosmonaute, on the 60th anniversary of the Navitimer variant becoming the first Swiss watch to travel in space.

As well as revealing a limited edition modern tribute, Breitling also revealed Carpenter’s space-worn Cosmonaute for the first time.

The first Cosmonaute was created at the request of astronaut Scott Carpenter ahead of his 1962 mission aboard the Aurora 7 spacecraft. A fan of watches, Carpenter approached then-Breitling owner Willy Breitling, asking for a Navitimer with a 24-hour dial to distinguish night from day while in space.

Carpenter’s own Navitimer Cosmonaute was irreparably damaged by exposure to seawater during the three-hour retrieval of the Aurora 7 space capsule and remained in the Breitling family archives in original, unrestored condition until today.

The modern watch features a 41mm stainless steel case and seven-row bracelet with a platinum bezel. The watch’s B02 chronograph movement is visible through a sapphire crystal caseback, revealing the words ‘Carpenter,’ ‘Aurora 7,’ ‘3 orbits around the Earth’ and the names of the seven Mercury 7 astronauts engraved on its bridges.

The Navitimer Cosmonaute is out now as a 362-piece limited edition, one for each circumnavigation of the Earth performed during Carpenter’s mission via Breitling,priced $11,200 USD.