{"id":827565,"date":"2026-08-27T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827565\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:40:12","slug":"whoop-launches-meridian-its-jewelry-inspired-band-and-its-latest-way-to-ensure-you-never-have-to-take-off-your-fitness-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827565\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoop launches Meridian, its jewelry-inspired band and its latest way to ensure you never have to take off your fitness tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoop launches Meridian, its jewelry-inspired fitness tracker It&#8217;s essentially a Whoop 5.0 with Milanese metal mesh and premium metallic finishesIt &#8216;keeps the same sensor array and tracking accuracy as the standard band&#8217;<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-58d3807c-a16f-11f1-b5c5-835ead368797\">If there&#8217;s one thing Whoop hates, it&#8217;s people taking their fitness trackers off. After all, you&#8217;re losing valuable data.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/fitness-trackers\/whoop-mg-review\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/fitness-trackers\/whoop-mg-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whoop MG<\/a> comes with a charging puck that clips directly onto the wearable as you wear it, and it&#8217;s why you get push notifications from the Whoop app whenever you remove the tracker, telling you it&#8217;s &#8216;off body&#8217;. But there are occasions when a fabric Whoop band would be inappropriate to wear \u2014 a wedding, perhaps, or a fancy dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-58d3807c-a16f-11f1-b5c5-835ead368797-2\">Enter Whoop Meridian: a sleek metallic fitness tracker with a Milanese mesh band and tapered silhouette, designed to look more like jewelry than gym.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos FromTechRadar<\/p>\n<p>According to Whoop, &#8216;Meridian is designed to solve one of the biggest gaps in health wearables: the fact that most people take theirs off exactly when continuous tracking matters (sleep quality outside routine, recovery on off days, stress during social events).&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.19%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fk7yznaFSN74Q83d5ceuQi.jpg\" alt=\"Whoop Meridian bands\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fk7yznaFSN74Q83d5ceuQi.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fk7yznaFSN74Q83d5ceuQi.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Whoop)<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-58d3816c-a16f-11f1-8488-5319dacbf891\">It offers the same sensors and tracking accuracy as a standard Whoop 5.0, and can be purchased as an additional accessory rather than a complete Whoop, if you so choose. In theory, Whoop members can swap their standard tracker for their Meridian band when needed and continue seamlessly tracking from day to night.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available in four colors: Gold, Rose Gold, Alloy (a generic metallic finish), and Black. It&#8217;s priced at $149 \/ \u00a3119 \/ AU$219, and is available from today (Thursday 27 August).<\/p>\n<p>Wearables have tried to capture the jewelry aesthetic before, to varying degrees of success: notably the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/fitbit\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/fitbit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fitbit<\/a> Luxe and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/apple\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> with the Hermes editions of its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-apple-watch\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-apple-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best Apple Watches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<p>However, I quite like the look of these Whoop bands: some shades like Rose Gold and Gold simply look like bracelets, while the darker, more robust colors almost feel like watch straps. If you can&#8217;t stand to lose hours of valuable data, this could be a stylish solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEWFJsWTJoeVlXUmhjaTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?hl=en-GB&amp;gl=GB&amp;ceid=GB%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-58d3823e-a16f-11f1-a564-85b5a8945ca6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:31.51%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78.jpg\" alt=\"Google logo on a black background next to text reading 'Click to follow TechRadar'\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/diM9tpwF2Lz85R8q85CT78.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] pull-rightinline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-58d382ac-a16f-11f1-838c-efe27574b91c\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEWFJsWTJoeVlXUmhjaTVqYjIwb0FBUAE?hl=en-GB&amp;gl=GB&amp;ceid=GB%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=techradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">add us as a preferred source<\/a> to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whoop launches Meridian, its jewelry-inspired fitness tracker It&#8217;s essentially a Whoop 5.0 with Milanese metal mesh and premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-827565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}