THE SCIENCE

Traditional inspiration.
Modern touch.

BuddhaCalm™ combines a three-point wrist design with coordinated tactile rhythms. The point arrangement comes from traditional practice; the rhythms turn that inspiration into an experience you can feel and adjust.

The idea is to offer a gentle sensory focus during a pause in your day. Research on touch and acupressure helps explain the rationale. Clinical evidence specific to BuddhaCalm is still needed.

BuddhaCalm worn on the inner wrist

RESEARCH COLLABORATION

Help us study the experience.

We welcome conversations with researchers and academic teams interested in inner-wrist vibrotactile stimulation, tactile rhythm, and intentional pauses.

Our next step is to build evidence specific to BuddhaCalm™. We are interested in carefully designed studies that explore the experience, test meaningful questions, and report results transparently.

A starting point for research.

The device: three independently controlled stimulation points on the inner wrist, inspired by P6, LU9, and H7.

The experience: coordinated Rhythms within app-selected Sessions, with adjustable intensity and duration.

Potential questions: comfort and usability, preferences for different patterns, and perceived relaxation during short Sessions.

Possible collaboration: protocol development, feasibility work, and appropriately controlled evaluation. Study access, technical materials, and support would be agreed with each research team.

Please include your institution, research interests, and proposed approach when you contact us.

What is Buddha’s Triangle?

Buddha’s Triangle is a name used by some acupressure practitioners for the arrangement of Pericardium 6, Lung 9 and Heart 7 around the inner wrist and forearm. These points are traditionally associated with calming the mind. That traditional rationale inspired BuddhaCalm’s three contact locations.

You may see different abbreviations in research: P6 is PC6, Lu9 is LU9, and H7 is HT7. A point’s traditional role and anatomical location are separate from evidence that a particular device produces a clinical benefit.

Inner wrist illustration showing P6 above the wrist, Lu9 toward the thumb and H7 toward the little finger

P6 / PC6

Neiguan
Inner forearm, above the wrist crease.

Lu9 / LU9

Taiyuan
Wrist crease toward the thumb side.

H7 / HT7

Shenmen
Wrist crease toward the little-finger side.

The illustration explains the design; it is not a precise fitting or self-treatment instruction.

TOUCH, TIMING AND THREE CONTACTS

Why touch and rhythm may help.

A sensation the nervous system can feel.
Touch-sensitive receptors respond to movement and vibration at the skin, carrying sensory information to the nervous system. BuddhaCalm uses this familiar sense of touch to create a gentle, physical focus. Touch-receptor research

The rhythm matters.
A pulse has a pace, a duration and a pause. Changing those features changes how the sensation feels. In a study of another wrist device, slow heartbeat-like vibration was associated with lower anxiety during a stressful laboratory task. This gives researchers a reason to explore tactile rhythm as a calming sensory cue. Read the study

Three contacts create more ways to shape that rhythm.
BuddhaCalm can vary each contact independently. A Session can pulse at several locations together, alternate between them, or shift intensity around the triangle. The three-point design turns a single vibration into a coordinated tactile pattern.

You choose the Session, intensity and duration. The intended experience is a comfortable rhythm to settle your attention on during a pause in your day.

What tactile-design research tells us.
A finger-stimulation study found that vibration frequency affected the threshold at which participants could feel it. Separate wrist-wearable research examined how people locate and recognize patterns from multiple contacts. These studies help explain why the physical sensation and the arrangement of contacts deserve careful design; they did not test anxiety relief from BuddhaCalm. Vibration-perception study · TactileWear study.

Illustration of changing contact intensity. The light overlays show the pattern; they are not lights on the device.

FUTURE STUDY PARTICIPATION

Interested in taking part?

If you would like to hear about future BuddhaCalm™ research opportunities, you can contact us to express your interest. This is separate from our product-update signup.

No study is being recruited through this page at present. Expressing interest does not enroll you in a study or guarantee participation. Any future study would provide its own eligibility criteria, information, and consent process.

For an initial inquiry, your name and email are enough. Please do not include medical information.

Sources and further reading

  1. WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations (2008). Location standard, not product endorsement. Source
  2. Morgan, C. Buddha’s Triangle (2019). Traditional practitioner background, not clinical evidence. Source
  3. Azevedo et al. The calming effect of a new wearable device during the anticipation of public speech (2017). Scientific Reports 7, 2285. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02274-2. Source
  4. Motokawa & Kato. Exploring combined vibration and music interventions for acute stress reduction (2025). BMC Psychology 13, 1100. Source
  5. Yildirim & Akman. The Effect of Acupressure on Clinical Stress Management in Nursing Students (2021). J Acupunct Meridian Stud 14(3), 95–101. DOI: 10.51507/j.jams.2021.14.3.95. Source
  6. Kelling, Pitaro & Rantala. Good Vibes: The Impact of Haptic Patterns on Stress Levels (2016). AcademicMindtrek. Source

Research reviewed October 2026. Descriptions distinguish traditional background, findings from other interventions and the evidence still needed for BuddhaCalm.