Struggling to sleep at night?
Luciano Wegmershaus might just have the solution you so desperately need.
A CPUT Industrial Design alumnus, Wegmershaus has developed Cohere, an innovative product designed to help people who suffer from sleep deprivation to wind-down using biofeedback technology.
“Cohere was the result of my fourth year industrial design thesis in which I explored whether it would be possible to create a product which would be able to assist people who had difficulty with getting to sleep,” he says.
When going to bed, the user wears a device that measures their breathing and heart-rate. Specially designed imagery and audio to aid the process of winding-down are then projected into the user’s environment from a device.
The visuals and sounds then interact with the user’s breathing and heart-rate in real time to complete the experience.
Wegmershaus says this process is known as biofeedback and the product assists the sleep process by providing a supportive environment for it to take place.
This innovative product is currently at an advantaged stage of development and was also featured at the recent CPUT Innovation Showcase where it caught the eye of potential investors.
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