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One in all my favourite issues about CES is the chance to see wild idea units. Not all of those are residence runs (resembling Razer’s AI anime girlfriend speaker), however they’re nonetheless fascinating glimpses into what some corporations see as the way forward for client tech. Well being/health model Amazfit has two such idea units at CES 2026 — the V1TAL Meals Digicam and Helio Sensible Glasses — and I had the chance to attempt each.

The V1TAL is well probably the most polarizing of the 2, so let’s begin there. I noticed the V1TAL behind closed doorways finally 12 months’s CES, however this was the primary time I may {photograph} it and see it extra completely. As for what it’s, it’s precisely as I describe within the headline: an AI digicam that watches you when you eat.

It really works like this. Press a button on the V1TAL to disclose its digicam, set it up for a transparent view of what you’re consuming, press the document button, eat your meal, after which finish the recording. Inside a number of seconds, the recording is uploaded to the Amazfit app, and your meal is logged.

It’s the identical primary idea as taking an image of your meal together with your cellphone to trace what you eat, however as an alternative of a single photograph, the Amazfit V1TAL captures a nonetheless picture each few seconds — exhibiting not simply what you ate but additionally how you ate it. As such, the V1TAL can see how a lot of your meal you truly ate, how shortly you ate it, and whether or not you targeted on sure objects in your plate whereas not touching others (e.g., skipping fruits or greens at dinner).

From right here, Amazfit’s AI analyzes the information and offers suggestions/insights in your consuming habits within the companion app. You could obtain a suggestion to eat extra slowly should you completed your meal too shortly, or a delicate reminder that you just left your broccoli untouched.

Surely, that is extra insightful than snapping an everyday photograph of your meals. For somebody who’s intently monitoring their food plan to shed weight or acquire muscle, a tool just like the V1TAL may very well be helpful. However even for these individuals, and particularly for folk who casually log what they eat, is that further bit of data definitely worth the effort of establishing a devoted meals digicam for each meal? That’s what Amazfit continues to be making an attempt to determine because it develops the V1TAL.

The opposite Amazfit machine I noticed, and the one I’m extra personally interested by, is the Helios Sensible Glasses. This can be a very early prototype (identical to the V1TAL is), so the design is much from last. Nonetheless, the core thought behind them is de facto neat.

Quite than serving as a notification hub, as most sensible glasses do, the Helios Sensible Glasses are designed for health. When paired with an Amazfit smartwatch, the glasses can show data like your steps, distance, and tempo throughout a run or biking session. For those who’re following a route in your watch, you’ll see turn-by-turn instructions on the glasses as properly. You see this data at in regards to the midpoint of your line of sight, and even on the early mannequin I used to be testing, it appeared sharp and high-quality.

Amazfit has no agency launch plans for both the V1TAL Meals Digicam or Helios Sensible Glasses, and, as famous above, each units are very early prototypes. Nothing right here is ready in stone.

Whereas I’m not 100% bought on the V1TAL, I’m curious to see how Amazfit continues to develop it. I’m far more gung-ho in regards to the Helios Sensible Glasses, and I can’t look forward to Amazfit to (hopefully) deliver them to market. Greater than something, I’m simply glad to see Amazfit discover new classes like this. These are unquestionably very artistic devices, and that’s precisely what I prefer to see at CES.