Too early? Brain stimulation device Thync fails to get traction in the minds of consumers

By SharpBrains | June 17, 2016

How Thync, Start­up Behind Brain-Zap­ping Gad­get, Almost Died (Bloomberg): “In 2014, Sil­i­con Val­ley start­up Thync had sold tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­asts and ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists on the idea of strap­ping a device to your fore­head that sends elec­tric shocks to the brain. The wear­able gad­get gar­nered atten­tion for its futur­is­tic promis­es of brain stimulation, 

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Brain hacking emerges as latest trend in wearable tech, but is it ready for prime time?

By SharpBrains | April 5, 2016

———- Brain-zap­ping gad­gets promise to make you a bet­ter you — smarter, stronger, even hap­pi­er (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “Amer­i­cans’ obses­sion with well­ness is fuel­ing a new cat­e­go­ry of con­sumer elec­tron­ics, one that goes far beyond the ubiq­ui­tous Fit­bits and UP activ­i­ty wrist­bands that only pas­sive­ly mon­i­tor users’ phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. The lat­est wear­able tech, to put it…

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