Aina Develops AI-Powered Wearable Ring to Anticipate Users' Next Moves
A Bengaluru-based founder of startup Aina, Apoorv Shankar, has developed a smart ring with an AI that predicts users’ requirements and the next move they will make. The wearable has a context-aware operating system that connects to smartphones, Macs and AI agents to automate common chores.
Apoorv Shankar's consumer electronics startup Aina has debuted an artificial intelligence ring with a screen that can operate agents, phone apps, Macs, and other linked devices by anticipating ordinary behaviours. Launched after 15 months of covert operation.
Exclusive to the ring is an OS that takes context into account. It figures out how people use it by observing their habits and then using data from their computers, phones, and agents. Next, it will anticipate the three items they will require. To accept or decline a proposal, users just flick up or down.
Aina Bringing Whole New Era of AI to Users
Super early bird pricing starts at $399 for a limited number of units, and pre-orders open on November 5. The anticipated start of shipping is January 2027. Aina is a revolutionary artificial intelligence interface that the business says can understand customer preferences through a ring. Holding the centre button also allows users to communicate with their representatives. Shankar mentioned that when they began developing Aina, they had the hypothesis that AI would progress from simply executing orders to predicting their needs.
That change has started with proactive agents. Shankar made the observation that hundreds of users' daily duties will soon be handled by agents such as Muse, Instinct, and Dots. Going into additional detail, he said that users now typically give them instructions through voice or text. They will then become proactive in nearly all interactions after learning user habits and expanding on context, with the only thing holding them back being user approval.
People answer yes/no questions and select alternatives hundreds of times daily. It won't work to take out and unlock a phone for each of these discrete instances. Aina is designed for the future of hardware interfaces that go beyond the phone, which will allow for voice and speedy approvals, according to Shankar.
Testing Phase of Aina
Aina was originally a human-computer interaction lab that Shankar founded in May 2025 to investigate physical interfaces in common computing contexts. Three concepts for experimental AI interfaces were displayed by the team at CES 2026. A three-key Mac keyboard that changes its functionality depending on the software users are using was unveiled in April with the name Dune. Dune was sent out to a large number of early users.
Since early October, the business has been conducting Aina tests with a select number of private pilot users. In preparation for the public unveiling, it utilised their suggestions to improve the hardware and user interface. From her warehouse, Aina will ship all over the world. It will initially work on Mac and iOS devices. There will be an announcement regarding the available integrations with further specifics following the launch.
