Wearable Neurotechnology: The Next-Generation of Sleep Optimization

Neurotechnology start-up Elemind is tackling sleep as its first category in a wider push to advance health and well-being innovation around what it calls “electronic medicine.”Founded in 2019, US-based Elemind has developed a smart headband that is able to read and respond to an individual's electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwaves in real time and deliver precise acoustic stimulation to influence a person's brain state. The start-up says it is “building the future of electric medicine,”—developing wearable neuromodulation technology designed to mimic the benefits of pharmaceuticals by influencing brain waves to change behavior and establish certain brain states. The device is being studied as a tool to suppress the nervous system condition essential tremor, enhance memory consolidation, increase pain thresholds during sedation, and improve sleep.