Wisear, the start-up that allows you to control objects by thinking

• CES in Las Vegas is the world's largest trade fair dedicated to technological innovation in consumer electronics.

  After a year in virtual reality because of the Covid-19, it reopens its doors this Wednesday for its 2022 edition.

• Among the French companies present, the start-up Wisear will represent one of the representatives of Ile-de-France.

• Its electrode-based technology should allow the general public to control electronic devices without using their hands or their voices.

In 2021, because of the coronavirus, the CES in Las Vegas had been only virtual. This Wednesday, it opens face-to-face and among the start-ups present, we find Wisear. This Parisian company will present a technology that could revolutionize our uses. Controlling electronic devices by thought or by a simple movement of the face? The idea may sound futuristic and just for science fiction. Yet this is the idea on which the Wisear team is working (pronouncing Ouaïzir, contraction of "wise", sage in English and "ear", ears). And it is already working.

“These are electrodes that are placed in and around the ear.

They detect bioelectric activity in the head and face, ”explains Yacine Achiakh, president and co-founder of the start-up.

The measurements captured by the electrodes are then interpreted by algorithms and transformed into a control order, such as a click.

The Wisear team, under the aegis of Alain Sirois, the other co-founder and director of new technologies, is working to miniaturize this technology with the aim of integrating it into the wireless headphones and headsets that a large part of the population uses it every day.

Wireless headphones, the first target market

“In our quest for development, we wanted to start with a widely used product, a large market and wireless headphones are booming,” says Yacine Achiakh.

A market in demand, according to a market player met by the Wisear team.

“He complained that the effectiveness of the controls was uncertain depending on whether you had wet hands or whether it was cold.

And voice control is not very popular with users in public spaces.

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No way, for the moment, to produce headphones, the goal of Wisear is to offer a technology that can adapt to any device, like a smartphone processor that would be used by different brands.

“We have already proven that it works, and today we are working on the miniaturization of the system.

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Scientists and investors believe it

And indeed, it works.

Tested by

, the prototype works wonderfully: bite your teeth twice quickly, and you'll play music on your phone.

Repeat the same movement and you will put it on "pause".

The blow is easy to take since the technology is so advanced that it makes the difference between chewing a chewing gum, speaking or any other use of the jaw so as not to activate with a movement other than that to which she is destined.

Developed with partner laboratories, including the National Research Institute in Digital Sciences and Technologies (INRIA) and the University of Aarhus in Denmark, a pioneer in the field of brain activity measurement, this technology will soon be ready. for large-scale deployment.

"We want to bring it to a productive level so that it can be integrated into wireless headphones for the general public," explains Yacine Achiakh.

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The two founders are not the only ones to believe in their device since they have already gleaned several innovation awards since the creation of their company in 2019 and it was classified "Deeptech" by BPIFrance (Public investment bank), a status reserved for companies with high added value of technological innovation and which earned them an aid of 90,000 euros in 2020. In addition to their first income and other aid, they collected the total sum of 500,000 euros and were thus able to to hire.

Wisear now has 6 employees in addition to the two founders, and the workforce should grow to 12 very soon.

Enough to prepare for the future wisely, starting with the unmissable CES event where more than 6 meetings with large groups are already scheduled.

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