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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 Zinho on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:34PM

    by Zinho (759) on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:34PM (#215893)

    . . . one of the smarter ones out of us hooked a lantern battery up to a transformer . . .

    So, he built an electromagnet? You would only get a voltage on the secondary coil when the current on the primary starts or stops. I could maybe see it having a good spike when you rapidly disconnect the battery; the quick switch from max current to zero could get you a decent jolt on the secondary in response.
    Any idea how he had it wired? Was there an oscillator anywhere in the mix? Just curious.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:37PM (#215927)

    It was probably bullshit powered

    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 31 2015, @08:46AM

      by anubi (2828) on Friday July 31 2015, @08:46AM (#216213) Journal

      My guess is he lit up on inductive kickback.

      God knows how many times I lit myself up on inductive kickback measuring transformers with an old Triplett VOM.

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