Nodpod CEO was inspired by Beanie Babies to make weighted sleep masks

You killed the Beanie Babies to make your sleep mask, okay. A few were sacrificed, it's true. I've always been a sleep mask wearer. I mean, never mind that I don't like straps or Velcro, but they had these little pads on the inside of my mask that just helped close my eyelids and turn my brain off. We were traveling without it, so when I used the sleeve of my sweatshirt, I thought, here's my big idea. And my mom is an exceptional seamstress, and I said, I've got this idea. Okay, it's long, no straps, no Velcro. I needed something to fill it, And my kids at the time had beanie babies that I was constantly washing and drying. I thought, what's inside of these? I researched the beads, and upon my research, found them in a thing called a weighted blanket. Now, this is back in 2012. What the heck is a weighted blanket? That's weird. Yeah. I'm doing this deep dive on the science. At the time, it had been used clinically in occupational medicine for people with ADHD, anxiety depression very successfully to help them calm the central nervous system and the science is so simple gentle constant pressure against your body you feel something