ZenBud Gaming

Your setup is fast. What about your reaction time?

ZenBud is testing a new reaction-readiness protocol for competitive gamers using ear-based ultrasound vagus nerve stimulation. In an initial active-vs-sham simple reaction-time study, active ZenBud users improved by an average of 21.1 ms from baseline, compared with 4.9 ms in sham.

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Active-group improvement

Sham-group improvement

Net active-over-sham difference

Active responders at ≥20 ms (sham: 3.3%)

Measured on a simple reaction-time task in healthy adults. Gaming-specific validation is in progress.

THE PROBLEM

Gamers optimize every millisecond they can measure.

You can buy a faster monitor. You can tune your mouse polling rate. You can lower input lag. You can upgrade your keyboard, GPU, headset, and connection. But every match still passes through the same bottleneck:

You see. You decide. You react.

ZenBud is exploring whether nervous-system readiness can become part of the same performance stack.

Not another aim trainer
Not another supplement
Not another headset
A measurable pre-game readiness protocol

Test Your Reaction Readiness

ABOUT THE DEVICE

Meet ZenBud

ZenBud is a non-invasive wearable that sits around the ears and uses focused ultrasound to stimulate the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. For general wellness use, ZenBud is designed to support the body’s natural calm and recovery response.

For gaming, the hypothesis is narrower: a better-regulated nervous system may support faster, cleaner reaction readiness before high-focus play. That hypothesis is now being tested.