When I was nine, I built my first vibration pillow. I have no idea why, except that I was a nerd who loved making things, and a pillow that buzzed felt like something the world was missing. Looking back, I think I was already chasing resonance: the idea that everything is vibration, a repeating pattern that tunes whatever it touches, and that the right frequency at the right moment can shift something in you that words never could.

That instinct never left. I studied biomedical engineering because I wanted to keep building, and I've worked on countless medical devices since. One of them, twelve years ago, was a bone-conductive hearing aid that sends sound through vibration in the skull. I watched people who hadn't heard clearly in years put one on, and something would change in their face. Not hearing returning, exactly. Something closer to recognition, like the body remembering a language it had almost forgotten.

I couldn't stop thinking about it. If vibration could give someone their hearing back, what could it do for the rest of us, listening to music we'd heard a thousand times before?

The Immersive Lounger is what came of it.

— Arman Sidhu, Founder