A kickstarter-backed start-up “Kokoon” has come up with an innovative headphone that can help you to sleep better by monitoring the brainwaves.
Kokoon is a pair of really comfortable EEG-sensing, Bluetooth headphones that help you sleep. The EEG brainwave sensors are placed in the headphones, which means the headphones can detect when we are falling asleep and will automatically fade out any music or pause audio, and then introduce white noise. The white noise alongside active noise-cancelling and noise isolation helps to protect your sleep and ensure you sleep great through the whole night. Then it will pick some point in your natural sleep cycle to wake you up.
These tiny EEG sensors sit within the headphones and monitor how asleep you are. It provides detailed feedback on your sleep cycle through smartphone app which helps you understand the best audio technique so that we can better sleep the next time.
They fold down to the size of a book. So, they can be used in bed at home, on a plane or train or even in a campsite. Kokoon headphones were designed so that they are comfortable while sleeping.
An air circulation system maintains acoustic seal while encouraging the air to circulate about the headphone cushioning to reduce heat and moisture.
Tim Antos founder & CEO at Kokoon said in an interview, “Why is sleep such an important problem? It occupies over a third of our lives and it affects everything that’s important to us—from our relationships to our health to our work to our general mood and happiness. We perform better and we’re better people when we’re well rested. From my own experience, I’m always out and about and stressed, and it’s getting more and more challenging to get that quality time and relaxation in bed. We want to make it easier to fall asleep but also to get better quality of sleep, so the sleep you do get is more productive and useful.”
When it is combined with gel cushioning, it enabled us to ensure that the headphone became in essence an extra pillow for your ears.
The Kokoon app helps us understand what audio techniques work to get you to sleep so that you can better sleep the next time. We can use the app to perfectly optimize a nap to maximize restorative benefit. The Kokoon app also comes with a selection of audio sleep techniques developed with sleep scientists to help you relax when you are really struggling. This intelligent library will evolve over time as the community discovers which audio works best.
“At Kokoon, we do intend to put together a database on sleep data after all, this is (hopefully) the first time in history that anyone will be able to collect consistent sleep data this accurately across such a wide base of people but that data will always be anonymized and managed with the highestdegree of
care to avoid compromising anyone’s identity or sense of security, and it will only be collected from those who choose to opt in with ample notice to do so,” Tim Antos said to Sleep Junkies.
Kokoon partnered with Onkyo Corporation to help make the headphones. They will be working with Onkyo’s acoustic engineers to craft the perfect audio ensuring that Kokoon will be a great pair of every day headphones as well.
If we worn the average headphone for too long, they get uncomfortable, get knocked into odd positions and get hot and sweaty. But they have re-imagined headphones from the ground up to really focus on complete comfort. They have worked through testing hundreds of prototypes in bed to find the perfect combination of acoustic performance, wireless technology and complete comfort.
Taking inspiration from high-tech pillows and sport shoe technology they developed their patented FlexMould Comfort system. By molding the headphone to the natural contours of the head and spreading pressure away from the sensitive regions they were able to dramatically increase the levels of comfort.
The Kokoon team is committed to undertaking 10,000 hours of comfort testing to fully optimize and refine these innovations and ensure they are incredibly comfortable for everyone.
Kokoon can be pre-ordered from their Kickstarter page for $139 and are expected to ship in February.
