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

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 Freeman on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:45PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:45PM (#215950) Journal

    Things like this send all kinds of alarm bells ringing in my brain. Sure, it could be used for something good, and hopefully will. Harrison Bergeron is a film / story that delves into what things can be done to "control people". In the case of Harrison Bergeron it was a device that pretty much just made people more stupid. It is all well and good to come up with treatments that help people, but this looks like a creature of a different sort. For some reason I have serious problems with someone zapping my mind to "make me feel better". Electroshock therapy has been around for a long time. Sure, some of it may actually be useful, but there is a long history of troubles there.

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