To save us confusion and prior judgments: It’s not about the “gadget of my life” but about how it affects it, but for the purposes of attracting attention, this title is more pertinent. With that being said, let’s get to the gadget of my life…this week.
I’m not going to talk (almost) about the features, materials or design, rather it is about reconciling technology (cold, metallic, impersonal) with the most empathetically human characteristic: emotion.
On my wrist, a smartwatch reminds me that I slept for 6 hours and 23 minutes. That my average heart rate was 64 beats per minute. That my stress levels were “moderate” and that, according to their algorithm, my body needs more rest. My body is exhibit A, my yawn is exhibit B. Still, the watch, a Huawei GT Series 6 Pro, doesn’t judge me; just watch. But since I’ve been wearing it, I wonder who really measures who. This makes me think that it is the first time in history in which a clock does not measure time, but rather our passage through it.
The GT 6 Pro is Huawei’s latest watch, and its calling card is not the megapixels or the processor cores, but something more intimate: its ability to listen to the body. It incorporates sensors that track heart rate variability (HRV) (one of the most accurate markers of stress). In fact, it is capable of analyzing and recognize up to 12 emotional states: relaxation, satisfaction, confidence, enthusiasm, calm, tranquility, concentration, surprise, disgust, annoyance, boredom, anxiety.
It translates my time so that I understand it and becomes a physiological and emotional mirror. AND, Just like a real mirror, sometimes it’s hard to look at yourself. Measuring health, in this context, is also measuring the way we deal with time.
The GT 6 Pro maintains the aesthetic commitment that characterizes Huawei: titanium case, high-resolution AMOLED screen and autonomy that exceeds two weeks. But the most valuable thing is not what you see, but what you do… as happens with time. Your system TruSense It does not limit itself to recording heartbeats, but rather interprets the relationship between the body and the mind.
Through HRV, the watch distinguishes between physical and emotional stress, a nuance that until recently was only achieved with laboratory equipment. And here again I return to the idea of time as a relative measure (of hours, decades or seconds), but also as a dimension: it is a clock that It shows me how I dwell not in space, but in time. Something we rarely think about. When the clock strikes 8 in the morning, it no longer only indicates a time: it points to a state (of sleep), but also to a goal, which can be steps, forgetting about a sedentary lifestyle or regulating stress.
The interesting thing is that its sensors not only measure what happens in the body, but also how the body experiences the passage of time. Each sleep chart is actually a map of our most vulnerable hours; each peak of stress, a note about what overwhelms us. And therein lies the most human technology that may have a gadget: reminding us that time is not accumulated, it is inhabited.
But wearing such a watch also poses a paradox. We believe that by measuring we gain control. We know the variables, the constants and even the intermittent ones of everything or almost everything that our body shows… when in reality what we discover is how little we control.
Smart watches, health rings, phones that record every step… they all confront us with the same truth: we are more variable than we would like to believe.
But that’s not necessarily bad. Instead of being scared, we could see it as a reminder that health is not a state, but a dialogue. Between the body and the mind (precisely today, World Mental Health Day), between the time that passes and the time we inhabit.
In purely functional terms, The Huawei Watch GT 6 Pro stands out for its autonomy of up to 14 daysits 5 ATM water resistance, the possibility of answering calls via Bluetooth and storing music.
Its 1.43″ AMOLED screen is bright even in the sun, and the HarmonyOS system allows it to be synchronized with any Android or iOS smartphone.
Offers more than 100 training modes, from running to apnea, and uses artificial intelligence to adjust exercise and recovery plans based on the user’s actual performance.
But, in the end, all of that (the sensors, the chips, the algorithms…) are the compass to locate ourselves in the temporal dimension and they tell us where to go to live better. And more.
When I look at the clock, I realize that it does not invite me to compete with time, but to reconcile with it. It is another paradox that borders on oxymoron: the more it measures, the more it teaches me to stop measuring. Maybe that’s why this watch, cWith all its titanium, its sensors and its hyperluminous screen, it feels more human than many other gadgets: it doesn’t tell me data about my life, but how I live it.
I don’t know how long I’ll wear this watch on my wrist, or how long its battery will last, or my enthusiasm (or need) to measure everything. Today, this is the gadget of my life. It makes me think that I don’t know how much time I have…, but I do have a lot of time. And that’s something new.