NextSense ear-canal EEG earbuds for sleep monitoring and closed-loop audio

• NextSense, founded by CEO JB and originally incubated at Google X, makes ordinary-looking earbuds that record EEG from the ear canal.¹
• Ear EEG trades the spatial resolution of clinical scalp EEG for continuous, practical brain monitoring in daily life.¹
• The earbuds monitor sleep and use closed-loop audio stimulation to boost slow-wave sleep activity.¹
• Beyond sleep, NextSense is exploring ear EEG for epilepsy forecasting and Alzheimer’s disease monitoring.¹
• The product path spans wearable neuromodulation engineering challenges, including vagus nerve stimulation, from lab prototype to consumer device.^{1 1}

Footnotes

1. https://neuralimplantpodcast.com/jb-nextsense-ear-eeg-earbuds-that-measure-and-improve-sleep ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶