Pain pills are so last year. In the future, all the cool kids will be using wearable tech to cure their aches and pains. That might sound like science fiction, but in reality, medical scientists have known how to treat pain with electrical signals for decades — and now the technology is finding its way into the world of wearable tech. Chronic pain keeps over 1.5 billion people around the world from living their lives to the fullest and affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. To avoid this, Cur leverages a decades-old technique known as transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, or TENS for short. Basically, this technique involves delivering small (and painless) electrical pulses to your nerves via electrodes placed on your skin. These pulses are designed to confuse your nerves and cancel out the pain signal they’re sending to your brain — thereby providing instant pain relief to the area of the body on which the electrodes are placed.