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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.