The breakthrough came from an unexpected place.
Dr. Robert Kim, former NASA engineer turned sleep researcher, was watching his father struggle with CPAP compliance.
"Dad spent $4,000 on this machine and used it maybe 20 nights in 2 years. He'd rather snore than feel suffocated," Dr. Kim recalls.
That's when he had the revelation: "We're using mechanical solutions for an electrical problem."
Drawing from his aerospace background in Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) - technology used to keep astronauts' muscles active in zero gravity - he developed the first device to address snoring's electrical root cause.
The mission: Create something so comfortable and effective that people would actually want to use it every night.
Three years and $2.1 million in research later, PulseAir™ was born.