Franco Canseco is a 13-year-old Mexican boy, who is participating in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, with his invention to fall asleep, called Neutonic Band. It is an electronic device that promises to help all people who, like him, suffer from insomnia or have difficulty sleeping.
The band helps reduce stress and induce relaxation, in order to make it easier for you to fall asleep in a period of between 8 and 16 minutes. To make it, includes an artificial alpha wave transmitter with 8 to 9 Hertz electromagnetic pulses, four tourmaline stones, a mask of total darkness and some headphones that play relaxing music, created by Mexican musicians, with scientific advice.
During CES, Franco exhibits his product at Eureka Park, the section dedicated to startups within the technology fair, and with this he becomes one of the few Mexicans who are present as exhibitors in it, which is among the largest and major technology events around the world.
In addition to representing Mexico in this fair, with their participation in it, Fanco seeks to achieve a larger scale distribution of its Neutonic Band, which, from February 2021 (when the official sale of the product started) to date, has managed to sell 5,000 units in Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Franco’s history as an entrepreneur began in 2016, when, at the age of eight and from his sleep problems, Franco devised an elastic band with integrated headphones to reproduce relaxing music and sounds. In 2017, it was registered with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).
After winning several science and innovation awards, like the contest “Ideas made in Mexico”, organized by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation and the ESIALMAT Science Expo In Chile, in 2019, Franco began to have the support of doctors and specialists to optimize the prototype of the Neutonic band and give scientific validity to its operation.
In addition, in 2019, Franco participated in the Shark Tank Mexico program for entrepreneurs, where he managed to attract the attention of five of the most recognized investors in the country.: Arturo Elías Ayub, Carlos Bremer, Rodrigo Herrera, Patricia Armendáriz and Marcus Dantus, who became his investment partners.