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$99 DIY kit overclocks your brain [video]
- mrsebastian 15y agoThis tDCS kit was on HN recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683750 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683750
- inetsee 15y agoThe video provides no additional information. I would suggest you skip it.
- ChuckMcM 15y agoYa know, something called a 'frontal lobotomy' has the same sort of process, send a current thought the frontal lobes of the brain and knock it out. I guess its not surprising that such experimentation would come to the 21st century. (it was first made popular in the 17th century for the treatment of all sorts of things). That being said, there are people who experiment with drug cocktails to improve/modify brain function, why not electricity. I am sure there will be some anecdotal successes and some spectacular failures.
- ryandvm 15y agoActually, this phenomenon is more than anecdotally documented. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=amping-up-brain-function http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=amping-up-b... That said, of all the things I like to tinker with - my brain is not one of them.
- DanBC 15y agoLobotomy didn't use electricity, it used knives. The story of lobotomy is fascinating, because a really destructive harmful procedure was introduced and used on many people without adequate testing; there was no evidence to suggest it would be useful. Electro-convulsive therapy uses electricity, but it uses timed pulses and not DC. The current is higher, about 200 mA (but can be higher) and the voltage is much higher, some hundreds of volts. This causes fitting. While an unpleasant therapy it's now done under anaesthetic and has good evidence for efficacy in some patients when used carefully.
- Coswyn 15y ago$5 brain overclocking kit: Starbucks Double Shot.