What’s the next big point for health gadgets? Smartwatches and physical fitness bands are anywhere. Smart rings had their breakout year in 2024 and seek to have an additional solid one in 2025 Smart scales are the standard, and sophisticated methods to check your blood pressure are typical, as well. What follows?
At CES 2025, I had the possibility to see what it may be. Throughout a behind-closed-doors demo session, Amazfit revealed me the brand-new Amazfit V 1 tal– a little tool that records you while you eat so it can automatically log your food and provide nutritional information. It’s a little bit of a mad principle, yet after seeing the gadget for myself and listening to Amazfit’s pitch for it, I believe it could be substantial.
Just what is the Amazfit V 1 tal?
The Amazfit V 1 tal differs from any kind of other wellness gizmo I have actually seen before. When you take a seat to consume, you push a button on the V 1 tal to open the leading part, with motors immediately flipping the screen away from you and exposing the camera. You established the V 1 tal on the table, guarantee the electronic camera has a sight of your plate, press the record button, and then consume like common. When you’re done with your meal, stop the recording on the V 1 tal– that’s all there is to it.
What occurs next is the fun component. The V 1 tal takes the recording of you eating, analyzes it, and sends it to Amazfit’s Zepp application (the very same one utilized to regulate Amazfit’s watches like the Amazfit Active2 As soon as there, it’s visited the app as a meal you consumed that day, including a malfunction of the number of calories it was and the macro values– including carbs, protein, and fats. It’s similar to logging food with an application like MyFitnessPal or Lifesum, however instead of having to check barcodes or by hand go into every one of the ingredients in a dish you had, the V 1 tal obtains all of that information from the recording.
What’s particularly fascinating is that the V 1 tal additionally checks out your consuming habits. As an example, it’ll see if you took a seat with a burger and a salad however barely touched your greens. It’ll likewise spot if you’re hurrying through your dish and eating as well quickly. When it sees these points, it’ll let you know alongside the logged meal with insights and ideas on how to enhance in the future.
Food logging and tracking isn’t anything brand-new; plenty of mobile apps have actually provided the performance for many years. And while those apps can be actually useful, bearing in mind to by hand log whatever you consumed is a taxing and conveniently featureless task. The Amazfit V 1 tal must fix that trouble. Prop it up on the table, eat your meal, quit tape-recording, and just like that, you have actually logged your meal.
The various other exciting part is exactly how the V 1 tal will eventually link right into the rest of the Amazfit ecosystem. Amazfit has ample smartwatches and physical fitness trackers in its profile, and it’s easy to picture how the V 1 tal might be one more useful problem item.
Talking with Scott Shepley (Amazfit’s Head of Global Advertising) and Jonathan Johnson (Amazfit’s Head of North American Advertising And Marketing), they used an instance of someone training for a marathon. You might get your activity and sleep data from an Amazfit watch and your dietary information from the V 1 tal, and Amazfit might utilize both pools to provide better training or dietary info.
Amazfit desires the V 1 tal to do more
Where things get even extra intriguing (and a little worrying) is exactly how Amazfit desires the V 1 tal to surpass food recording and logging. The V 1 tal runs Amazfit’s Zepp OS– the same software application on its smartwatches– which suggests you obtain some smartwatch-like capability. The V 1 tal can show notifications from your phone, established timers, take care of a to-do list, and a lot more. You can additionally utilize the camera for routine video recording if you ‘d like.
At one point, Shepley and Johnson referenced the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R 1 and just how they want the Amazfit V 1 tal to be a better version of them. The major focus of the V 1 tal today is to track and log your food, but Amazfit has big aspirations for the V 1 tal to be far more than that. One example that was given was having the V 1 tal on your workdesk and utilizing your voice to ask it to open Amazon and buy something for you.
It was encouraging to listen to Shepley and Johnson talk about these grand visions for the V 1 tal, however this is likewise where it gives me some time out. To me, the pitch of a committed health gadget concentrated on assisting you log your meals and boost your nourishment is special and fascinating. Comparatively, another all-in-one AI gadget that’s taking on two of 2024’s largest tech oversights is something I would certainly intend to stay far from.
I increased these issues to Shepley and Johnson, that both seemed to understand the balancing act before them– supplying a device with a focused intent while offering additional capability for people that desire it. As long as the V 1 tal concentrates on being a nutritional tool initially and providing additional functions 2nd, I think it’ll be great. We’ll simply need to see if that’s what really takes place.
A peek at the wellness device future
Fortunately, you shouldn’t have lengthy to wait on that. Though it’s just a prototype now, Amazfit prepares to launch the V 1 tal in Q 1 or Q 2 of this year. Unlike many idea and model announcements at CES, you’ll be able to get and make use of the V 1 tal in the very near future.
I’m sure there will certainly be some apprehension concerning a device viewing you while you eat. Still, it’s very easy to see this being an incredibly valuable gizmo for so many people– whether you’re attempting to drop weight, mass up, track your macros, or get better insight into your eating habits. The Amazfit V 1 tal can be instrumental in all of those circumstances, and it’s charting a new path of health devices unlike any type of we’ve seen prior to.
Amazfit’s pitch for V 1 tal is impressive. The next action is seeing just how it does in the real life and if it can provide what Amazfit is encouraging– and I absolutely wish it does.
