ORIGINS

How We Got Here

We were returning home from visiting our daughter in New York City. It was an early-morning flight, so we dozed off and on in our coach seats most of the three-hour trip. Susie awoke at some point and complained about her stiff neck. She continued complaining about her neck the next day and about the increasing pain in her shoulder and down her arm. When she began having trouble breathing we made a trip to the ER thinking the worst. But it wasn’t a heart attack - it was chest wall pain that originated from our flight from NYC!​

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We vowed to find a solution. We tried many travel pillows, but they didn't help us sleep any better. They were hot and itchy, and we didn't like lugging them around.  We ordered other travel products, but they just didn’t work as advertised. Flight after flight we didn’t get the results promised, let alone get any more sleep. 

All the products we sampled had a single purpose – make sleep possible in an upright sitting position. But why didn't they work? We thought a lot about how this could be done simply. We liked the idea of a gentle tether, from head to seat. Something like an elastic band, like a resistance band for your head. A headband. And after a year of designing and testing, Headbanzzz was born.

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Headbanzzz. Your Passport to Sleep.