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Not sure if ultrasound stimulation of the human brain is really in the realm of hobbyists, but there is a DIY transcranial direct current stimulation scene (DIY

• somenameforme 3y ago
  Wow, that explains a lot. One trip I went on there was a older man, bald but otherwise extremely clean cut, the sort to wear slacks, loafers, and a dress shirt tucked in - casually, and quite healthy looking. He almost had a sort of super villain type appearance, somehow. Anyhow, he had a fairly large briefcase type device he carried everywhere with him and was trying to convince everybody to come try his 'electric brain stimulation.' Surprisingly, nobody seemed too interested in going into a hotel room with a stranger to get their brains plugged into the wall. He seemed to have zapped away all inhibitions, and common sense. Sure made for an interesting character though!
  • patientzero 3y ago
    The wetware devices (like the hobby EEGs) of the early internet made it a point to never be plugged in to mains.. There's a bit of a correlation causation issue with understanding these studies of one. It seems quite possible that they zap away inhibitions, but equally likely that one has reduced inhibitions if one is inclined to solder things together and push them against one's skull to see what happens.
• bbor 3y ago
  This was a crazy discovery for me. The main two consumer groups of brain-tech users are a) new-age psuedoscience spas like the Berkeley Brain Spa that buy old equipment and show you pretty graphs, and b) terminally online people melting their brains for vague IQ benefits