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We're increasing the brain's restorative function during sleep.

Over the last 4.5 years, we've been developing slow-wave enhancement technology which increases the effectiveness of deep sleep.

We've developed the full stack, our own hardware, soft conductive dry (no paste or gel) electrodes, comfortable EEG headband, embedded sleep stage classification and stimulation models, the list goes on and on.

We're currently ramping up for a pre-sale, and getting the marketing inline, along with finalizing industrial design, prepping for manufacturing, etc, etc,

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Very excited to see this as I’ve been struggling to increase my amount of deep sleep each night. I sleep 7.5 hours, but only get an average of 1 hour of deep sleep. What’s the timeline look like?

So something that I wrote about in a recent blog post[1], we don't increase the amount of TIME in deep sleep. We increase the restorative function (synchronous firing of neurons) without altering sleep time.

We'll be launching a pre-sale once we complete our fit testing (end of Q2 '25) and shipping Q4.

[1] https://www.affectablesleep.com/blog/is-8-hours-of-sleep-the...

Good use of tech. Hardest thing will be corrosion on the fabric electrodes. Muse S has much to teach if you haven't looked at them yet.

We don't use fabric electrodes, we've developed our own conductive silicone. The other thing to learn from Muse S is that mastoid (over ear) electrodes are nearly impossible. We have comb electrodes similar to dreem.

Though, I don't think corrosion is the issue with Muse S, the electrodes tear as I understand it. Either way, they are not robust enough.

Very interesting, what do you estimate the price will be?

We'll be competitive to the high end of other wearable devices (think Oura/Whoop). We aim to make the starting price affordable by offering a subscription plan, though we are also considering a "full fare" for people who hate subscriptions, but that would be considerably more up front.

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