A company founded by a Santa Fe entrepreneur offers a chair that massages your body with soundwaves.
You heard that right.
The startup, incorporated earlier this year, is called Vibroluxe. It sells office chairs outfitted with electronics — including a transducer — that sends soundwave vibrations through the body. The company has also developed a daybed.
Vibroluxe's gadgets can be used to listen to regular music. They use the concept behind binaural beats, which are tones played at slightly different frequencies which when heard can cause the brain to operate at lower electromagnetic frequencies. But instead of a person's ears, Vibroluxe's chair uses binaural beat-type frequencies for the body.
"You feel this slow wave that goes [sic.] through your body as you’re experiencing it," founder David Sampson told Business First.
In December 2020, Sampson received a patent for a "vibration inducing tactile apparatus," U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filings show.
Orders are "trickling in," according to Sampson, who said he is a guitarist and moved to Santa Fe with his wife from Los Angeles earlier this year. The company works at the Santa Fe Business Incubator, Sampson said. Santa Fe Business Incubator is an early-stage business development organization.
Viboluxe chairs work with Bluetooth and an online application. List price is about $1,600 for the chairs, although Sampson said a holiday promotion has brought the price down to $1,200 before shipping.
Accessories including battery packs and headphones from JBL, an audio equipment company based in Stamford, Conneticut, are also offered by Vibroluxe, according to the company's website.
