The next big change in wearable technology may be hiding in plain sight, sitting in your ears instead of on your wrist.
Companies including NextSense and Neurable are already developing or selling earbuds and headphones that use electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors to capture electrical activity associated with the brain, targeting uses such as sleep, focus and fatigue.
Unlike the specialized equipment traditionally associated with brain monitoring, these devices are designed to disappear into an everyday product that people already wear for hours at a time.
The underlying technology is not new: EEG has been used to measure electrical activity in…
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