Gadgets: New health smartwatch

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...