Product Description

Vigo is a smart Bluetooth headset that helps keep you alert. With sensors and an advanced algorithm, Vigo tracks changes in your blinking patterns to detect when you’re dozing off and stimulate you in a number of ways. Vigo is also a fully functional Bluetooth headset with high quality audio, media streaming, and noise cancellation.

From the Manufacturer

$85,000 raised with 1,000 backers.

Stay in the zone

Vigo tracks your eyes and head motion for signs of drowsiness. Vigo stimulates you when you're going down, with a combination of sound, music, light or audio.

Learn about yourself

View patterns and trends of your alertness over time and get recommendations on how to improve.

Personalized alerts

Choose between music, vibration or pulsing light alerts

Ergonomic design

Easily adjust Vigo to fit comfortably over long periods of time

Advanced noise cancellation

Vigo’s dual microphone design ensures your calls are free of background noise

Take high quality calls

Vigo is also a Bluetooth headset for handsfree calling and music streaming. Advanced noise cancellation ensures your calls are crisp and clear.

About the Startup

Describe your product in 3 words.

Safety, music, headset

How did you come up with the idea for this product?

We used to doze off as students at the University of Pennsylvania, and wanted to create a device to stay awake in class. What we quickly realized was that one group of people had higher stakes in staying alert - drivers. We decided to build Vigo for drivers to keep them safe on the road.

What makes your product special?

Vigo is the first product to create a driver drowsiness detection system that's easy to use, confortable to wear and affordable.

What has been the best part of your startup experience?

We love it when we receive emails from users who tell us how Vigo is helping them stay safe at the wheel. Whether it is for professional drivers who are on the road more than 10 hours a day, or for people with narcolepsy who tend to doze off while driving, or for those buying Vigo for their loved one to ensure they are safe on the road, the outpour of emails from people who are happy with what we have creative is extremely fulfilling.