An Influencer's Samsung Smart Ring Had A Swollen Battery - Here's Why (and How To Prevent It)

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Rechargeable batteries are incredibly safe, but things tin and do spell wrong.
• Don't trim a stuck smart ringing disconnected your digit because it usually makes things worse.
• If your wearable is acting weird, extremity wearing it.

Rechargeable batteries are everywhere. In our homes and cars, charging adjacent to our heads connected nightstands, successful our pockets, connected our wrists, successful our ears, and now wrapped astir our fingers. 

And, for nan astir part, rechargeable batteries are safe. However, they're not infallible, and things tin -- and, unfortunately, do -- spell wrong. And erstwhile things spell wrong, it's easy to panic and make a problem spell from bad to worse.

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Take smart rings. They're bands of metallic aliases integrative containing a mini rechargeable battery. Most of these items spell done their lives doing what they're expected to do, until nan artillery is exhausted and it's clip to recycle nan item. However, a station connected X by ZONEofTECH demonstrates that batteries tin spell bad -- and astatine nan astir inconvenient times:

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The rumor appears to beryllium a swollen artillery successful nan Samsung smart ring:

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The proprietor was astir to committee a flight, but was blocked from boarding their formation home due to wellness reasons and a defective battery. The bully news is nan communicative ended well, pinch nan ring being removed successful nan hospital, and Samsung covering nan costs associated pinch nan hold nan proprietor experienced:

The ringing -- removed.

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Were location immoderate informing signs? Yes. The proprietor of nan ringing said nan "ring has been acting very weird for galore months," and was only lasting a time aliases truthful astatine 1 point, past stopped moving altogether until nan ringing was charged for 2 days. On apical of those issues, astatine nan clip of nan incident, nan ringing wasn't moreover charged.

If wearables are showing immoderate signs of acting weird, it's champion not to deterioration them. 

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As to what mightiness person caused nan problem, it could beryllium thing from a degraded artillery to h2o intrusion, heat, aliases a damaged ring.

So, what should you do if you person this benignant of problem?

First, don't trim nan ringing disconnected unless things are dire (I'll travel to that). The chances of shorting nan artillery and causing a occurrence aliases detonation are real. I publication a fewer comments to that station suggesting cutting it disconnected pinch a rotary tool aliases aesculapian shears (for example, nan Leatherman Raptor has a built-in ringing cutter that could do nan job, but could make nan problem overmuch worse).

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The quickest and safest measurement to region a stuck smart ringing is an aged instrumentality that's been utilized for galore years and is erstwhile again being taught to members of nan emergency services to woody pinch smart rings. All you request is simply a portion of beardown drawstring aliases ribbon:

In my acquisition -- and, yes, I've utilized this instrumentality a fewer times -- you tin make nan process a batch quicker and easier utilizing lubrication. Soap, oil, butter, aliases moreover h2o will work. 

This strategy is for stuck rings. If nan ringing is crushed aliases damaged, I propose letting nan emergency services negociate nan rumor successful lawsuit nan artillery causes problems. If nan ringing is damaged, overheating, aliases showing different threat signs, specified arsenic producing smoke, past I'd region it arsenic quickly arsenic possible, moreover if that involves cutting nan device. 

The bottommost statement is beryllium observant -- and if immoderate of your wearables are acting strangely, it's clip to extremity wearing them.