BOSTON, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Embr Labs, the leading health tech company addressing health conditions through temperature, today announced that it has been named to Fast Company‘s fourth annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring emerging technology that has a profound impact for industries—from education and sustainability to robotics and artificial intelligence.
This year, 138 technologies developed by established companies, startups, or research teams are featured for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society overall. While not all technologies are available in the market yet, each is reaching key milestones to have a proven impact in the next five years.
Embr Labs is the maker of Embr Wave®, the wrist-worn wearable that utilizes temperature as a new pathway to the brain to manage hot flashes, improve sleep, and manage stress. The product serves the 1.1 billion women in menopause who desire a natural approach to this important life transition. The product is also utilized by men and women of all ages for thermal comfort, sleep, and stress management.
Embr Labs earned its place on Fast Company’s esteemed list for developing the technology to predict and stop hot flashes with an AI-powered, wearable cooling device. Embr’s predictive operation can detect the physiological change that precedes a hot flash and uses that signal to automatically deploy a cooling intervention. This groundbreaking solution is only possible through Embr’s patented technology that provides immediate and powerful cooling from a Bluetooth-connected device the size of a smartwatch.
“We are thrilled to be recognized by Fast Company,” stated Sam Shames, COO and Co-founder of Embr Labs. “This award highlights Embr as a leader in the emerging category of wearable technology that directly delivers an intervention. Embr’s technology can predict and stop a hot flash by deploying physiologically optimized temperature waveforms to stimulate the unique properties of thermoreceptors to dampen down the overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system.”
“The Next Big Things in Tech provides a fascinating glimpse at near- and long-term technological breakthroughs across a variety of sectors,” says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Spanning everything from semiconductors to agricultural gene editing, the companies featured in this year’s list are tackling some of the world’s most pressing and vexing problems.”