You’ve likely heard the promises before: Fall asleep faster, relax deeper, wake up easier. But chances are the products that made those claims never looked like this. Earable Neuroscience—cofounded by a University of Colorado Boulder computer science professor and Children’s Hospital Colorado doctor—spent almost a decade figuring out how to deliver a sleep clinic to your bedroom. The result is Frenz Brainband, a mind-reading headband that, let’s be honest, looks like a futuristic version of the headgear you had to wear to bed every night as a teenager. Debuting this month at CES (an annual consumer electronics trade show, which has already honored the product with an innovation award), Frenz features sensors for your forehead and a superconductor above your ears that, together, monitor brainwaves, heart rate, breathing, oxygen levels,…
