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Brain-Computer Interfaces: What You Should Know Before Neuralink's Update
Wearable Technology

Brain-Computer Interfaces: What You Should Know Before Neuralink's Update

It is 1965. A man in a plain brown suit sits on a stage, staring blankly into the crowd. The purple headband he’s wearing is the most out-of-place characteristic about him, but not for long.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
7 min read
The Story of Sentien: Part IV
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The Story of Sentien: Part IV

When I returned to Prague from my California trip, I had more motivation than ever to continue with the project, encouraging feedback from YCombinator, and fresh ideas to try. The aim was to create a final product that was small, ergonomic, and

  • Sentien
    Sentien
7 min read
The Story of Sentien: Part III
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The Story of Sentien: Part III

When we left off in Part II, I had just come to the conclusion that, in order to make a truly seamless interface, I would have to design and build my own hardware. It was the only way to get an audio interface free of KO parameters like a short

  • Sentien
    Sentien
11 min read
The Story of Sentien: Part II
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The Story of Sentien: Part II

Summer, 1981. IBM released the original IBM personal computer, in direct competition with the four-year-old Apple II. In response, Steve Jobs took out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal with the blaring headline:

  • Sentien
    Sentien
5 min read
The Story of Sentien: How a Research Project Became a Company
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The Story of Sentien: How a Research Project Became a Company

Part One: Ideation and Research In 1979, Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs were butting heads over Raskin’s proposed research project: a computer for the masses that could be manufactured in large quantities

  • Sentien
    Sentien
9 min read
Everything You Want to Know About Bone Conduction
Bone Conduction

Everything You Want to Know About Bone Conduction

Bone conduction technology. To anyone hearing about it for the first time, the idea sounds either cool or totally bizarre. We’ve put together answers to the most frequently asked questions about bone conduction tech, along with a lot of information that no one asked for...

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
7 min read
Voice Tech at Home and in Hospitals: Combating COVID-19
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Voice Tech at Home and in Hospitals: Combating COVID-19

It’s difficult to measure the effects that the current global crisis has on the future of technology. Rather than trying to take in an overwhelming flood of information or to predict broad-scale

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
2 min read
Smart Glasses Are Not Ready. Sentien Audio Is.
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Smart Glasses Are Not Ready. Sentien Audio Is.

In this blog post, we’ll talk about the similarities and differences between a Sentien Audio headset and smart glasses, as well as some practical reasons behind our choice of audio over visual.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
5 min read
What problem should the next big tech innovation solve?
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What problem should the next big tech innovation solve?

Is a smartphone a product that consumers love, or is it a product they are addicted to? Is Facebook an access point to human connection, or a flood of advertising and irrelevant media? Why do we spend so much of our time and attention on technology that doesn’t actually help us accomplish our goals?

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
3 min read
A Wristwatch for Your Ears: All-Day Wearability
Wearable Technology

A Wristwatch for Your Ears: All-Day Wearability

When you think about your favorite wearable technology, what top features stand out? There’s the stylish look of Airpods, the sound quality of Beats, the utility of a smartwatch, the accuracy of

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
3 min read
What does Sentien Audio do that your phone can't?
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What does Sentien Audio do that your phone can't?

These days, the positive effects of technology vastly outweigh the negatives, which means that advances in technology can finally address those negatives and create better iterations of the tools we need for our

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
2 min read
7 Free Apps That Will Reduce Your Screen Time
Digital Wellbeing

7 Free Apps That Will Reduce Your Screen Time

Time is our most valuable, finite resource. We can’t control whether or not we use it; the only thing we can control is how we use it. In 2019, Rescue Time published stats gathered from the data of 11,000 of their app users. The time an average person spends on a smartphone? 3 hours and

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
4 min read
Easy (and Free) Ways to Improve Your Digital Wellbeing
Digital Wellbeing

Easy (and Free) Ways to Improve Your Digital Wellbeing

Overwhelmed by articles shouting about digital wellbeing? Here are some ultra-simple things you can do to improve your focus and save time, in five minutes or less.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
3 min read
Breaking Down the Barriers to Seamless Interaction
Digital Wellbeing

Breaking Down the Barriers to Seamless Interaction

The goal for technology is to one day be able to think about something, and the connection to tech will be so natural and seamless that a simple thought can make it happen. That’s nice to say, but what’s so important about a seamless experience? And while we're

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
2 min read
3 reasons to use the free Sentien Launcher for Android
Digital Wellbeing

3 reasons to use the free Sentien Launcher for Android

We came out of 2019 with some sobering statistics about our use of mobile technology. According to Statista, the number of people worldwide using smartphones has gone from 2.5 billion in 2016 to 3.2 billion in 2019, with a projected increase to 3.5 billion in 2020.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
3 min read
The future of wearable technology is seamless interaction.
Wearable Technology

The future of wearable technology is seamless interaction.

As long as we have to physically interact with devices (pressing buttons, plugging things in, and tapping screens), we won’t experience a fully seamless interaction.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
2 min read
Harmonizing with our Tech
Digital Wellbeing

Harmonizing with our Tech

It is incredibly easy to mindlessly swipe away on our smartphones. These things are ridiculously addictive. How often have you used your device for something productive, only to realize you actually spent the last 10 minutes on your Instagram feed looking at airbrushed photographs?

  • Sentien
    Sentien
3 min read
User Experience: Ambient soundtrack for augmented life.
User Experience

User Experience: Ambient soundtrack for augmented life.

You’ve probably heard about wearables for augmented reality, right? Some factory worker wearing 5-pound glasses with a display to help him put a screw into the right hole. Well, this article is about a very different kind of wearable experience. Much lighter, yet much more elaborate.

  • Sentien
    Sentien
4 min read
Interested in ambient computing? You should be.
Wearable Technology

Interested in ambient computing? You should be.

Welcome to the world of ambient computing. A world where interactions with your devices are seamless. A world where technology lets you focus on the important things while it takes care of the rest.

  • Sentien
    Sentien
1 min read
Does technology really empower us? Almost.
Wearable Technology

Does technology really empower us? Almost.

No matter how much technology empowers us, we are still missing the tool to bring humans and tech together seamlessly. A seamless interaction between humans and technology would be both empowering and, ultimately, natural.

  • Liz Windsor
    Liz Windsor
2 min read
Ready to minimize your screen time?
Digital Wellbeing

Ready to minimize your screen time?

Challenge the paradigm of acquiring your digital experience exclusively through screens and improve your digital wellbeing with Sentien Audio.

  • Sentien
    Sentien
3 min read
The First Step Toward Seamless Interactions
Wearable Technology

The First Step Toward Seamless Interactions

Although technology is increasingly intertwined with our daily lives, we are not using it to its fullest potential. So what can we do today to get us closer to that potential?

  • Sentien
    Sentien
2 min read
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