Startup helps people fall asleep by aligning audio signals with brainwaves

Do you ever toss and turn in bed after a long day, wishing you could just program your brain to turn off and get some sleep?That may sound like science fiction, but that’s the goal of the startup Elemind, which is using an electroencephalogram (EEG) headband that emits acoustic stimulation aligned with people’s brainwaves to move them into a sleep state more quickly.In a small study of adults with sleep onset insomnia, 30 minutes of stimulation from the device decreased the time it took them to fall asleep by 10…

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