YHE BP Doctor Pro Blood Pressure Smartwatch
Two-minute review Wearables are quickly morphing from smartwatches and fitness trackers to medical devices, able to alert us if they detect a symptom of a serious medical condition. Cue the BP Doctor Pro , a unique and rather good looking new smartwatch whose wrist strap boasts a miniature pump and air valve that inflates to monitor your blood pressure. It’s not exactly the first smartwatch to get our heart racing. There’s been a raft of optical and electrical heart-rate sensors on smartwatches and fitness trackers in recent years. Features like heart-rate, ECG (electrocardiogram), oxygen saturation and AFib irregular heart-rate rhythm measurements are common, but actual blood pressure? Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Watch does have a blood pressure app and Amazfit smartwatches will soon get PumpBeats , but they’re essentially using an algorithm on the same optical PPG (photoplethysmography) sensor that’s typically used to measure heart rate. (Image credit: Jamie Carter) Bloo...