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The Headphone Company That Bet You Would Rather Hear the Traffic
While the rest of the audio world raced to seal your ears shut with noise cancellation, Shokz built a business on the opposite promise - keep them open, and let people hear the world they are moving through.
The Oregon Family That Taught the iPod to Swim
A college junior figured out how to drown-proof an iPod, sold it to swimmers, and built a niche electronics brand in Oregon around one stubborn problem: Bluetooth does not work underwater.
Otolith Labs
Otolith Labs is a Washington, D.C. medical device company building the first wearable to treat vertigo, motion sickness and virtual-reality sickness. Its patented non-invasive Vestibular Resonance Therapy (nVRT) uses precisely tuned bone-conduction vibrations to interact with the motion sensors of the inner ear, quieting the faulty balance signals that cause dizziness. The head-worn OtoBand has been tested on hundreds of subjects, carries an FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, and is pursuing FDA clearance through the De Novo pathway.
Elemind Technologies
Elemind Technologies is a Cambridge, Massachusetts neurotech company spun out of MIT that makes a wearable EEG headband which reads your brainwaves and plays phase-locked acoustic pulses through bone conduction to help you fall asleep faster - without drugs. Founded by a group of leading neuroscientists and led by CEO Meredith Perry, the company launched its $399 'sleep on demand' headband in 2024 after raising $12 million in seed funding. Its broader ambition is an 'app store for the brain': one wearable running different neuromodulation protocols for sleep, tremor, memory and beyond.
Meredith Perry
Meredith Perry is the co-founder and CEO of Elemind, a neurotech company building a wearable headband that reads your brainwaves in real time and nudges them with bursts of sound, marketed as sleep on demand. Before Elemind she was the inventor behind uBeam, the ultrasonic wireless-charging venture she dreamed up as a University of Pennsylvania undergrad and grew into a roughly $40 million, much-debated startup backed by Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Mark Cuban and Marissa Mayer. A trained paleobiologist and astrobiologist who once did research with NASA, Perry holds dozens of patents and now wants to build what she calls an app store for the brain.
Shokz OpenFit Pro
Shokz OpenFit Pro are open-ear earbuds that pull off something most audiophiles thought impossible - noise reduction without sealing your ears. Launched at CES 2026, they combine a SuperBoost dual-diaphragm driver, Dolby Atmos with head tracking, 50 hours of battery life, and a triple-microphone array that quietly tamps down background noise while keeping you aware of your surroundings. Built for athletes, office workers, and anyone who refuses to sacrifice situational awareness for sound quality.