Change Your Mind

the final device probably won't look like this.                                 screen shot

Coming soon to a medicine cabinet near you ~ a gadget controlled via your smartphone that, according to its inventors at the startup Thync, electrically stimulates parts of your brain to either energize or help you calm down. The writer of this piece tried it out. "There's no question that I feel a significant change from the calm vibe," he says, "but could that be a placebo effect? I wonder if it works on everyone, and if it works the way Thync says it does." So he sets about finding out (story, video): http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/535641/the-electric-mood-control-acid-test/