I tried an AI-powered headband that uses weird sounds to unblock your nose, and it actually worked

Stephen Warwick -TechRadar's Fitness & Wearables writer

The SONU headband promises relief from congestion and allergy symptoms. For nearly all of my 30 years traveling around the sun, I’ve suffered from debilitating allergies of some sort. As a young child, I was often laid up by hay fever, as well as by allergies to things like dog hair and house dust mites. Couple that with chronic rhinitis (inflammation of the lining of the nose), and it’s safe to say that my childhood was pretty torrid.

The SONU Band is a wearable headband that uses vibrational sound therapy to help clear nasal allergies and congestion. It sounds weird, but the tech is FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approved, and backed by science. In 2021, a study found that resonant vibration of the sinonasal cavities (playing sound against your face, to you and me) reduced symptoms such as nasal congestion, sneezing, itching, and rhinorrhea (runny nose) in 90% of subjects after just two treatment cycles, with no adverse side effects.

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