A DRY-EEG INSERT FOR YOUR HEADPHONES

Your focus,
measured.

One channel of real brain signal, read from an insert in your earpad and scored 0–100 while you work. An instrument, not an app: it shows you when focus held, when it broke — and what broke it.

focus detector
Preorder — $49.99
HOW IT WORKS

How a brain signal
becomes a focus score

1 · Read

Real EEG

Dry electrodes in the earpad read an around-ear EEG signal — no gel, no prep, no second device. Just the headphones you already wear all day.

2 · Compute

Engagement index

We compute an established engagement index — beta (13–30 Hz) against alpha (8–12 Hz) plus theta (4–8 Hz), after Pope et al. (1995). It rises as you lock in and falls as you drift.

3 · Score

Live overlay

That index becomes one number from 0–100. When it craters halfway through what was meant to be deep work, you’ll see it — and see exactly what pulled you out.

SUPPORTED BY
  • Founders, Inc.
  • SJSU SpartUp Incubator
  • Foothill College
  • Arkor

Focus is signal. We made it visible. 

Simulated preview of the live focus overlay — not a recording.

Locked in at the desk, headphones on — Photo by Yan Krukau from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-a-floral-shirt-playing-on-a-computer-9072283/
LOCKED IN

While you work

One number at the edge of your screen. When it craters, that's a context switch you'd never have noticed — the kind that costs the next twenty minutes.

Watching a live EEG session on the NeuroFocus phone app — concept render
SESSION REVIEW

After the session

The honest trace of your day: when focus held, when it broke, and what each interruption actually cost. Hours worked is a vanity metric — this isn't.

TECHNICAL DEPTH

The signal is real.

A focus score is only worth trusting if the signal under it is real EEG — not noise. So we anchor ours in a peer-reviewed engagement index (Pope et al., 1995), estimated in our proof of concept from a single around-ear channel.

Simulated overlay — a looping demo, not a live capture.

  • EARPADCH 1 · RAW EEG
    SINGLE-CHANNEL EEG · AROUND-EAR

    One dry electrode in the earpad reads an around-ear EEG channel — the same passive, voltage-only sensing principle as a lab EEG. No gel, no forehead straps.

  • β 13–30 Hz+α 8–12 Hzθ 4–8 Hz=FOCUS0–100
    ENGAGEMENT INDEX · β / (α + θ)

    An established EEG engagement metric (Pope et al., 1995) — the number the overlay tracks.

  • EYES OPENα LOWEYES CLOSEDα HIGH
    THE BERGER EFFECT

    Alpha power (8–12 Hz) rises when you close your eyes and falls when you open them — the oldest result in EEG, and a clean check that a device is reading your brain.

  • 12345678TODAY · CH 1PRODUCTION → 8
    WHERE WE ARE · SINGLE CHANNEL

    Today's proof of concept reads one around-ear channel, checked against a consumer NeuroSky headset. The production design scales toward eight channels.

BUILT IN THE LAB

How we actually build it —
and how we test it.

Real science only ships on real hardware. Hands-on bench tests, real wearing sessions — every shot here is our own lab and our own prototypes, not a render.

NeuroFocus board bring-up
Bench testing electrodes
Tester running the live app
IN TESTING

Real prototypes, in testing.

Pilot testing · Inky on the wired prototype
Pilot testing · Inky on the wired prototype
Live Dota 2 session · focus telemetry running
Live Dota 2 session · focus telemetry running
Pilot testing · in the lab
Pilot testing · in the lab
Pilot testing · prototype session
Pilot testing · prototype session
JOIN THE PILOT

Be first to see
your focus for real.

Join the pilot waitlist — or write us about a pilot for your team. First production run targets Q4 2026.

Or preorder now — $49.99 →
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