Amazfit Unveils Revolutionary Health Tech Innovations at CES 2025

What’s on the horizon for health gadgets? Smartwatches and fitness trackers are ubiquitous. Smart rings had their breakout moment in 2024 and are poised for another successful year in 2025. Smart scales have become standard, and advanced devices for measuring blood pressure are readily available as well. So, what comes next?

At CES 2025, I got the chance to see what the future might hold. In a private demonstration session, Amazfit introduced me to the Amazfit V1tal — a compact gadget that records you while you consume meals, enabling it to automatically log your food intake and provide nutritional details. It’s a somewhat unusual idea, but after witnessing the device firsthand and listening to Amazfit’s presentation, I believe it has the potential to be significant.

What precisely is the Amazfit V1tal?

The Amazfit V1tal is distinct from any other health gadget I’ve encountered. When you are ready to dine, you press a button on the V1tal to open the top section; motors automatically rotate the screen away from yourself, exposing the camera. You place the V1tal on the table, ensure the camera has a view of your plate, press the record button, and then proceed to eat as normal. Once your meal concludes, stop the recording on the V1tal — and that’s all there is to it.

The intriguing part follows. The V1tal captures the footage of your meal, analyzes it, and transmits it to Amazfit’s Zepp app (the same app used for controlling Amazfit’s devices like the Amazfit Active 2). Once in the app, it’s logged as a meal you had that day, complete with a breakdown of the caloric intake and macro values — comprising carbohydrates, protein, and fats. It’s akin to logging food with an app such as MyFitnessPal or Lifesum, but instead of having to scan barcodes or enter each ingredient manually, the V1tal gathers all that information from the footage.

What stands out is that the V1tal also observes your eating patterns. For instance, it can note if you sat down with a burger and a salad but hardly touched the greens. It will also detect if you are hurriedly consuming your meal too quickly. When it detects such behaviors, it will provide insights and tips next to the logged meal on how to enhance your habits in the future.

Food logging and tracking have been around for a while; numerous mobile applications have provided this feature for years. While these apps can be extremely useful, the task of remembering to manually log everything you consumed can be tedious and easily overlooked. The Amazfit V1tal is designed to remedy that issue. Position it on the table, enjoy your meal, halt the recording, and just like that, your meal is logged.

Moreover, the V1tal is anticipated to integrate with the entire Amazfit ecosystem. Amazfit has a wide range of smartwatches and fitness trackers in its lineup, and one can easily envision how the V1tal could be an additional helpful component.

In conversations with Scott Shepley (Amazfit’s Head of Global Marketing) and Jonathan Johnson (Amazfit’s Head of North American Marketing), an instance was shared about an individual training for a marathon. You could gather your activity and sleep statistics from an Amazfit watch and your dietary data from the V1tal, and Amazfit could utilize both sets of information to provide enhanced training or nutritional advice.

Amazfit aims for the V1tal to accomplish more

Where things become even more fascinating (and somewhat concerning) is Amazfit’s intention for the V1tal to extend beyond merely logging food. The V1tal operates on Amazfit’s Zepp OS — the same platform found on its smartwatches — which allows for certain smartwatch-like capabilities. The V1tal can display notifications from your phone, set timers, manage task lists, and more. You can also utilize the camera for standard video recording if you wish.

At one moment, Shepley and Johnson mentioned the Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1, indicating their aspirations for the Amazfit V1tal to surpass these devices. The primary objective of the V1tal currently is to monitor and log your food intake, but Amazfit has grand plans for the V1tal to evolve into more than just that. One example they provided was having the V1tal positioned on your desk, where you could engage your voice to command it to access Amazon and make a purchase for you.

It was heartening to hear Shepley and Johnson discuss these ambitious visions for the V1tal, yet this is where I find myself with some reservations. For me, the concept of a dedicated health gadget aimed at assisting you in logging your meals and enhancing your nutrition is both rare and captivating. In contrast, another all-in-one AI device that seeks to compete with two of the significant tech missteps of 2024…

is something I would prefer to keep at a distance.

I expressed these issues to Shepley and Johnson, both of whom appeared to grasp the delicate balance before them — delivering a device with a specific purpose while also providing additional features for those interested. As long as the V1tal prioritizes its role as a nutritional tool first and supplementary functions second, I believe it will be successful. We just need to observe whether that is the outcome.

A glimpse at the future of health gadgets

I am confident there will be some reservations about a device observing you while you consume food. Nevertheless, it’s easy to envision this becoming an exceptionally helpful gadget for many individuals — whether your goal is to lose weight, gain muscle, monitor your macros, or gain better insight into your eating habits. The Amazfit V1tal could be crucial in all those situations, and it is paving a new direction for health gadgets like none we’ve encountered previously.

Amazfit’s proposition for V1tal is commendable. The subsequent phase is witnessing its efficacy in practical settings and whether it can fulfill what Amazfit is claiming — and I sincerely hope it does.