Connected Future Labs

03/25/2026

We’re back from the Capital, where our founder, Sean Montgomery, presented “CogniTrend: Wearable+AI Cognitive Wellness Monitoring” at the a2 National Symposium.

CogniTrend leverages our team’s years of experience using wearables to track behavior and physiology and incredible partnerships (UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Johns Hopkins University Artificial Intelligence Collaboratory for Aging Research) to bend the curve on Alzheimer's.

This year’s conference focused on Empowering Innovation in AI/Tech and Aging with the goal to redefine what’s possible from breakthroughs in AI, aging, and dementia care. We were thrilled to contribute to the growing dialogue surrounding biometric sensing and its role in empowering healthy longevity and continued independence.

A huge thank you to the organizers for putting this together. As well as the other innovators, researchers, and funders shaping the future of health longevity through cutting edge technology.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging - NIH

12/15/2025

Last week, our team had the privilege of inviting Paul Dietz, former Disney Imagineer and Microsoft Senior Researcher, to our lab after his talk on Crowd HCI at the University of Nevada, Reno. Paul’s visit sparked our team’s imagination, and we are excited to explore new ideas inspired by his thinking.

Thank you Paul Dietz for sharing your time, ideas, and imagination!

10/14/2025

What a fantastic night celebrating 10 years of innovation in northern Nevada!

Connected Future Labs was honored to showcase some of our groundbreaking work, including demos of EmotiBit. On our table were also reminders of our consulting history: prototypes that contributed to the Meta EMG wristband and the Galea VR headset.

It was great to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new ones at the UNR Innevation Center’s 10-year anniversary celebration!

Thanks to the Innevation Center for building this ecosystem and for featuring our founder, Sean Montgomery, in their anniversary spotlight.
🔗 Read the full story here: https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/innevation-center-member-highlight-sean-montgomery

Here’s to another decade of innovation, collaboration, and community in Reno!

09/25/2025

Sean Montgomery will be speaking at Reno Startup Week this Monday!

Sean will reflect on what’s worked and what hasn’t to build a business that continues to shape the future of tech nearly a decade after its inception. This deep-tech engineering company–Connected Future Labs–is pushing boundaries across Consumer Products, Health & Wellness, Education, Environmental Sensing, and Interactive Entertainment.

He’ll dive into:
● Lessons learned from the entrepreneurial journey
● Diversification into high-risk/high-reward R&D and sustainable product development
● Takeaways from a NYC→Reno HQ move, weathering a global pandemic and supply chain crisis, and more

We can't wait to see you there.

08/05/2025

Connected Future Labs has been awarded funding from the NIH a2 Innovation Grant! This grant will further the development of our cognitive wellness app, Cogniscore. CogniScore will use advanced and biometric wearable technology for the early detection of Alzheimer's and related dementias to help individuals, , and .

This project will be in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University AI & Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research and the University of California, Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Stay tuned for more updates on this project and how we aim to reveal the hidden patterns of mild cognitive impairment.

07/29/2025

Almost like telekinesis? Meta’s new neural wrist interface just hit Nature! We contributed extensive R&D to the early prototypes, so we’re thrilled to see this milestone published. Check out our work on this project and more at connectedfuturelabs.com

09/27/2024

It’s awesome to see how Connected Future Labs' work with CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta) may help redefine the way we interact with computers!

Meta’s AR glasses are an impressive tease of what Mark Zuckerberg thinks will replace the smartphone.

09/13/2024

Come see Connected Future Labs founder, Sean Montgomery, kick off Reno Startup Week this Monday with a panel discussion on Deep Tech! https://www.renostartupweek.com/schedule

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