Hi, everybody. How's everyone doing?

I am good. I am feeling better than I was feeling last week. I was a little bit sick.

And I have to say, I'm excited about a gadget right now.

Lauren, you're excited about a gadget.

It's like the old days of the gadget lab. And it's been such a long time since I've been excited about a new piece of hardware, but I am.

Okay, is it a Tesla? Yes, it's the model. Actually, I got all of the models. S-E-X-Y. Isn't that what they're called now? X-3. Oh, God, I really bungled that one, didn't I? No, it's not a Tesla. It's not. It's not new,'s the aura ring. It's not new, but new to me. Have you guys

heard of the aura ring? Oh my God. You know, this is like a personal obsession with mine. I've

been wanting one for months and months and months. I'm seething with jealousy. Tell us everything.

The sleep tracking. That's it. I'm not a good sleeper. And this has been giving me some really good insights into my sleep.

And stress. I got a stressful email this morning, and I swear about seven minutes later, the ring had

logged that I was stressed. It's so obvious when you have a bad night of sleep, you wake up and you

feel like trash. It's the idea that we need our phones to like verify this is like,

no, you know what it's happening. And yet I so deeply want the validation. Like I love the

quantified life. I want to be able to see it in numerical form. So I'm all in. Yeah, Zoe, I could

totally see how as a parent of two babies, you would still want that

validation. Like, yes, I am very tired. It also gives you something called a readiness score,

which supposedly signals how ready you are to tackle the day based on sleep. I mean,

yet again, though, I'm like, we have no choice. Like, what, I have a low readiness score. Sorry, boss, I can't, like, come into thought. I'm like, it all feels a little superfluous. And yet, I have never wanted a gadget more. And yet, we have to get you one. We have to get you one just so you can go to Katie Drummond, our global editorial director. the next time there is huge breaking news on any of the broligarchy.

And I need you to say, Katie, my readiness score is suboptimal.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure I can do this right now.

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