Neurotechnology start-up Elemind is tackling sleep as its first category in a wider push to advance health and well-being innovation around what it calls “electronic medicine.”Founded in 2019, US-based Elemind has developed a smart headband that is able to read and respond to an individual's electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwaves in real time and deliver precise acoustic stimulation to influence a person's brain state. The start-up says it is “building the future of electric medicine,”—developing wearable neuromodulation technology designed to mimic the benefits of pharmaceuticals by influencing brain waves to change behavior and establish certain brain states. "Noise Cancellation" for the BrainThe device is being studied as a tool to suppress the nervous system condition essential tremor, enhance memory consolidation, increase pain thresholds during sedation, and improve sleep. The team behind the patented neurotechnology—made up of neurotech and neuroscience professors, doctors, researchers and entrepreneurs associated with renowned institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, and Harvard Medical School—are targeting sleep using neuromodualtion to help the wearer fall asleep faster and improve sleep efficiency.“It's like a noise cancellation system for the brain,” says Meredith Perry, co-founder and CEO of Elemind. The headband works by interupting the brainwaves that keep a person awake and boosting the waves that keep someone in a deep sleep state by sending tailored acoustic feedback signals—directing the wearer out of wakeful patterns.