I’ve bought a few massaging dodads in my day – the ever-present early-2000s “shiatsu again massager with warmth” sort of factor you’d see on TV and whatnot – however these curler balls at all times find yourself simply jabbing my sacrum or backbone, making me extra irritated than relaxed. So I gave up on gizmos of questionable high quality and determined I would proceed my regular as soon as a decade or so go to to an precise professional.
When Renpho emailed asking if I would prefer to assessment its Eyeris Zen eye massager, I solely let myself get just a little excited. Fact be informed, I principally figured it’d simply be one other gimmicky product. My expectations have been low.
The specs:
The Renpho x Headspace Eyeris Zen is a 9.7-oz (275-g) headband, principally, that massages your eyes and temples. It is created from ABS and PU leather-based. It has three acupressure modes for both your eyes, temples, or each. It has two stress intensities and three warmth settings: 108, 113, and 118 °F (42, 45, 48 °C). It has 9 built-in Headspace meditations, or you possibly can pipe your individual tunes by it through Bluetooth on a tiny onboard speaker constructed into the headset.
Renpho markets the Eyeris Zen as “focused eye reduction with immersive Headspace meditations for a full body-to-mind reset.”
JS @ New Atlas
My take:
After unboxing it, I charged it for about 20 minutes to rush up and get on with it, kicked my toes up in my LiberNovo Omni, strapped it to my face and hit GO … after which did not wish to take it off for practically an hour.
It is troublesome to specific how wonderful it feels when the little air bladders contained in the masks gently, warmly pump up and deflate. The quiet ~40-dB noise it makes is ASMR all by itself, with out even needing separate audio. The little eye massager genuinely seems like a pair of skilled, mushy, agency, heat fingers and thumbs nudging, kneading and placing stress on the precise proper locations on my temples and eyes. It is really sort of magical.
There was nearly no “I want it did this or that higher.” There was solely bliss – and the occasional squishy eyelid.
Modes:
Retinal Safety = eyes
Regeneration = temples
Pressure Reduction = each (winner!)
Now, the “Headspace” portion comes from a collaboration with Headspace, the subscription-based meditation app that’ll value you an additional US$13 per 30 days. That is not me, although. I clicked by a few the included meditations simply to attempt it out, however it does not add lots to the expertise, in my view. Particularly not sufficient to get me excited over yet one more subscription. If you’re into guided meditations, I would think about you’d get pleasure from it. If you happen to’re into silence, you may by no means use the Headspace options.
I do not endure from complications or migraines or something like that. I suppose I’ve as a lot eye strain as the subsequent man or gal who spends most of their day observing a monitor and pecking away at a keyboard. Actually, I do not suppose eye pressure actually even issues a lot for the little purple masks … it simply feels nice, and it actually does what it says on the field: zen.
It additionally packs down fairly small into an included mushy bag, so it is very easy to journey with. I might see it and a set of ANC headphones for a protracted flight being fairly superior. I’ve fallen asleep with them on twice now. And surprisingly, once I wakened an hour or so later with Eyeris Zen nonetheless saddled to my face, it wasn’t gross or sticky in any respect. I am a bit OCD with cleanliness, although, so I wipe them out after every use anyhow.
JS @ New Atlas
I solely have three minor complaints:
The buttons for altering modes, temperature, and so forth aren’t all that intuitive. Within the dozen or so instances I’ve used the attention massager, I nonetheless cannot keep in mind which button does what, and whether or not I am presupposed to faucet or long-press it … That is in all probability extra of an ish-me than a difficulty although.
I typically have to drag the masks away from my face as a result of it will begin screwing up my eyelids. The way in which that the sample kneads my eyes within the Pressure Reduction mode, it will slowly attempt to kind of open one eye or the opposite just a bit bit … so the method is only a fast “raise from face, blink a pair instances to ‘reset’ my eyelid to the comfy-closed place, and put again on,” however it could be cooler if I did not have to try this. Sadly, it is my favourite setting too (Pressure Reduction, agency stress, excessive warmth is my jam!).
My different grievance – and admittedly, my largest one – is that I am relegated to doing completely nothing whereas I put on it. As a result of it covers my eyes, successfully blinding me, it leaves me unable to clack away at my keyboard.
I imply, I suppose that is the purpose, proper? To loosen up? However if you happen to’re like me, discovering time to do completely nothing in any respect is sort of unimaginable. Even when “there’s nothing to be performed,” (ha! Like that even exists!) my mind by no means stops. But when this factor had little eye portholes so I might hold typing whereas sporting it? You’d have to start out calling me Donatello, as a result of I would be wanting like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 24 hours a day.*
Typing that is making me actually wish to chuck it on proper now. You realize what? I feel I’ll. Cowabunga, dude!
Product web page: Renpho x Headspace Eyeris Zen
*It does not help passthrough charging. You must flip it off to cost it. However you can nonetheless hold sporting it, TMNT-style, I suppose.
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