Gadgets: New health smartwatch

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Link2Care, a next‑generation preventive‑health wearable platform, announced the United States release of its Watch2Care Vital Smartwatch recently at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The Watch2Care Vital is touted in its press release as the first smartwatch uniting 3,000 Years of traditional Chinese medicine with over 9 million user cases of real‑world health data and advanced AI systems. Sure, it tracks your steps like many of us (including me) are so consumed with, but it's way more than that. Inside the smartwatch are advanced sensors that capture and analyze Western biometrics and TCM pulse data in real time.

For the most part, it’s an advanced health tracking device you wear on your wrist. A Link2Care representative mentioned it was more of a device with a holistic approach.

Features include groundbreaking health-monitoring technology that focuses on organ‑system insights for the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys. The results focus on alerting users to early warnings of potential health problems and on encouraging lifestyle and dietary adjustments.

The monitoring will provide continuous monitoring of 38 physiological metrics, including the ever-popular and essential sleep analysis, active lifestyle tracking, organ system monitoring and real‑time biometrics. Every day, the Watch2Care Vital provides AI‑generated health reports and composite health scores through the Link2Care app (Apple App and Google Play Store), which is also used for firmware updates. The sleep monitoring feature watches for abnormal nighttime heart‑rate spikes.

In my short time with the watch, I wasn’t able to track anything significant in my body, but its capabilities definitely caught my attention. While it’s not a smartwatch like we are used to with devices like the Apple Watch, it offers messages, notifications, email, endless apps and CarPlay connectivity.

The health features are marketed to far exceed what other smartwatches can using Chinese medicine. You get your first report from the traditional Chinese medicine after wearing the Watch2Care Vital for 24 hours. Among the information in the report are scores out of 100 for your heart, liver, kidney and spleen. There is also a feature to measure your blood oxygen level.

Since it is paired with your smartphone, the Watch2Care Vital will send an alert when there is new mail or messages to look at on your phone. It does tell you the time, have an alarm and weather, which is pulled from your smartphone.

The watch looks much more stylish than more popular smartwatches. It has a 48-hour battery life, which I can attest to, and fast charges in about an hour and a half. A proprietary USB charging cable is included. The display has a 1.43-inch touchscreen with rounded edges, built into a titanium case, with Bluetooth 5.3 for pairing. It has a sparkling, clear resolution of 466 by 466 and has an IP67 waterproof rating.

Being a long-time Apple Watch user, I found the touchscreen on the Watch2Care Vital to be responsive and easy to use to access other features and screens. There are six watch faces to choose from; there’s no right or wrong, it’s just what you like and what information you want to see. I navigated to the face, which shows the time in the largest font.

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