TECH BYTE – New Smart Technology Helps Fight Mental Fatigue
Pylot Technology Smart Headband helps productivity and fights mental fatigue
CHATTANOOGA, TN – Almost everyone wears a smart device, and undoubtedly a smart phone. We track our steps, our hydration, and even our sleep. But what if there was a smart device that could track your mental activity and help you get more out of your career or your hobby?
Ben Wiseby is the CEO and co-founder of Pylot. Not much different than you and me, they’re a group of professionals that spent large portions of their days in meetings, and what they found was that we were wasting some of our peak productivity hours and it’s not that we’re lazy, it’s that we have mental fatigue. From that, the idea of Pylot was born.
According to CEO and Co-Founder Ben Wiseby “At Pylot we think that your work success should be defined by the quality of your output, not how long you’re in the seat for each day in front of a computer. The average knowledge worker is only productive for about two and a half hours a day. Yet, it takes 8 hours to achieve that. So we want to start flipping those numbers a bit and allow the productive hours to increase but the overall work hours to decrease.”
“Pylot is the first wearable to track your mental energy with the aim of helping you boost your productivity,” says Wiseby. “So it’s a slim headband that you can wear in the same way that you might wear a watch or headphones during the day, you put on this headband while you work and it uses EEG and a heart rate variability sensor to be able to track your flow and mental fatigue as you work.”
Pylot can start giving you data on how to structure your work days in as little as 20 minutes, but according to Ben it really needs about 20 hours to be effective. It can show you when to do your hardest tasks, or when you need to take a break or do some lighter tasks but overall it decreases your mental fatigue and maximizes your work and creativity. They’re also working on integrating with a few smart watch companies to start tracking the correlation of physical fitness and productivity at work.
“Pylot can help anyone that who has a job or hobby that requires a high level of cognitive performance,” claims Wiseby. “We’ve also had a lot of interest from college students and people who have to manage ADHD so the application of Pylot is actually quite broad.”
If you’re looking to maximize your mental output, visit our new friend Ben and his team at trypylot.com. He’s a wealth of knowledge and the technology is truly fascinating.
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