Ultrahuman's Home Environment Tracker Is Ultra Expensive and Underbaked

"The Ultrahuman Home is a futuristic-looking home environment monitor that tracks air quality, light, sound, and temperature. All this data flows into the Ultrahuman app on your phone, offering potential insights into your environment and suggestions on how you could make it healthier. Sadly, this mostly amounts to reminders to crack a window open, because most of the touted features are not yet present and correct, despite the rather hefty $550 price."

"Ultrahuman made its name with a subscription-free smart ring that made biohacking more affordable (though it may soon be banned in the US due to a lawsuit from Oura). The Home monitor may seem like a strange sidestep, but if you're going to hack your body, why not your environment? After all, we know air quality, light and sound exposure, and temperature and humidity can impact our sleep and general health."

"Taking a leaf from Apple's playbook, the Ultrahuman Home is a 4.7-inch anodized aluminum block with rounded corners (it looks like a Mac Mini). There's an Ultrahuman logo and light sensor on top, a power button and LED on the front, and a USB-C port on the back flanked by privacy switches to turn off the microphone or connectivity (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)."

"Setup is super simple: Plug it in and add it via the Ultrahuman app. The Home gets its own tab at the bottom of the Ultrahuman app, alongside the ring, and if you tap on it, you'll get a score out of 100, indicating how healthy your environment is. Scroll down for a breakdown of the four scores that combine to create your overall Home score (air quality, environmental comfort, light exposure, and UV exposure)."

Ultrahuman Home is a compact, anodized aluminum home environment monitor that measures air quality, light, sound, temperature, and UV exposure and sends the data to the Ultrahuman phone app. The device integrates into the existing app with its own tab and gives an overall Home score out of 100 plus four sub-scores for air quality, environmental comfort, light exposure, and UV exposure. Setup requires plugging in and pairing via the app; hardware includes a top light sensor, front LED and power button, USB‑C port, and privacy switches for microphone and connectivity. Air sensors track VOCs, CO₂, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and smoke, while particulate sensors monitor airborne particles. Many advanced features are not yet implemented, leaving the device to provide mostly simple ventilation reminders despite its $550 price.

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