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Thync Review: Where We Just Say Yes to a Drug-like, Brain-Zapping Wearable

posted by takyon on Wednesday July 29 2015, @11:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the aggression-implant dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Thync is a consumer product. And that's exactly how we're reviewing it – much like we would a new iPhone or laptop. We share our experience and make our recommendations, but we aren't writing any research papers or conducting any double-blind studies on it (though the company does link to some of those on its website).

After using Thync every day for the last week and a half, I'm convinced that it's one of the most exciting new tech products of 2015. Like taking a hit of Mary Jane, it can push me from an anxious, over-thinking mood to one where I'm cool, collected and laid-back like a THC-infused Rastafarian. And if I'm feeling sluggish or unmotivated, Thync can also peel that layer away, like the sun burning a morning fog off of my consciousness.

I heard about the brain-mod crowd a couple years ago at the New York Maker's Faire. A team from DARPA gave a talk on an electro-stimulation cap they said was meant to fight Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in veterans. This seems to follow. Has anyone from Soylent experimented with trans-cranial electro-stimulation?

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:48AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:48AM (#215757) Journal

    There are at least two very impressive anecdotes in that radio lab story. I did get commercial electrodes -- basically a stainless mesh with a jack for the lead, a sponge, and a rubber thing that holds it together -- add a little saltwater. Anyway, I'm sure I got juice through it -- I could see that white flash mentioned in the RadioLab show, but I never did get the metal taste in my mouth.

    Around the same time I had gotten a roku and it either came with or I bought Galaga. I wanted to see if it would improve my performance -- I don't think it did, or at least not much more than just practicing. I did get my high scores while using it, but then, by the time I got my high scores I had been playing quite a bit. Then I remembered why I had to give up video games (wrist problems) and the experimentation ended.

    Maybe if I try it again, I'll just sit and listen to music.

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  • (Score: 1) by patella.whack on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:04AM

    by patella.whack (3848) on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:04AM (#215763)
    So commercial electrodes, and only one sponge? Maybe that's an issue right there. Or do you mean the mesh only needs to be wetted with one sponge? What I'm driving at, is that the conductive sites need to be specific to areas on the skull you'd like to target so as to hit specific areas of the brain, with more than one contact point. Did you target any specific areas, or just sort of put a hat on?
    On a personal note, Galaga is one of the best. Galaxian too. It's kinda like listening your favorite records you had as a teen. Nothing really comes close to what you get when you revisit those.

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:43PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:43PM (#215971) Journal

      It's each. Each electrode is a mesh, a sponge, and a holder. I have two, or six parts total.