Medical Devices - Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
The Airstrument is a wearable, motion-controlled instrument that makes playing music as intuitive as moving your hands.TED | MassChallenge | MusicBricks | Music Tech Fest |Airstrument's prototype won an award at Music Tech Fest Scandinavia, 2015.It then graduated from the #MusicBricks incubator by the European Union (Horizon 2020).It was later accepted into the MassChallenge global accelerator, where it won 2nd place out of 40 startups at the pitching competition.Founder Matan Berkowitz was invited to give a TED talk at TED NYC 2018, where he introduced the Airstrument and gave a live demo of playing music using hand movements.The device is currently being tested as a musical, gamified platform for hand rehabilitation in collaboration with hospitals and NGOs in Israel, India and Costa Rica.