Overview
- Augmental opened public U.S. sales on Wednesday for the custom-fit MouthPad and simultaneously announced Vox as a $200 beta, with the MouthPad slated to ship within six months and Vox targeted for late 2026.
- The MouthPad is a palate-mounted, pressure-sensitive Bluetooth trackpad that uses tongue, head and sip gestures to move a cursor, click, swipe and trigger shortcuts on multiple paired devices.
- Augmental lists the MouthPad at $1,400 plus an approximately $100 dental scan, reports roughly seven hours of battery life and a 1.5-hour charge time, and also offers a $1,900 bundle with a second unit.
- The company says about 100 people used early-access units and claims a user record of 10.47 bits per second in a cursor task—an internal performance figure the firm compares to some implanted brain–computer interfaces.
- Wider adoption will hinge on regulatory clearance, clinical validation and affordability, but the products could expand noninvasive options for people with severe motor or speech limits and seed future ‘silent speech’ models by pairing mouth and body‑conducted audio data.