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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10 Brain Transformers: A Poem

By Anu Acharya | November 25, 2015

. As we enter an era of a trans­form­ing cere­brals there will soon be “Mind­ful” wear­ables to con­cen­trate, med­i­tate and self reg­u­late Did I just see you drop your jaw­bone at the gate? Charge your­self to a calm­ing or ener­giz­ing state Enhance mem­o­ry and you are now feel­ing great Your life may soon be in a dif­fer­ent motion…

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Non-invasive brain stimulation in children creates opportunities and risks

By SharpBrains | September 23, 2015

Brain Stim­u­la­tion in Chil­dren Spurs Hope—and Con­cern (Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can): “The idea of using mag­nets or elec­tric cur­rents to treat psy­chi­atric or learn­ing dis­or­ders — or just to enhance cog­ni­tion — has gen­er­at­ed a flur­ry of excite­ment over the past ten years. The tech­nique is thought to work by acti­vat­ing neur­al cir­cuits or by mak­ing it…

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Challenge: How to spur meaningful, targeted & safe adoption of emerging neurotechnologies

By SharpBrains | September 1, 2015 |

A cap that treats depres­sion? Check the sci­ence before get­ting excit­ed (The Guardian): “Yes­ter­day, an arti­cle in the Entre­pre­neurs sec­tion of the Guardian pur­port­ed to reveal a “cloth cap that could help treat depres­sion”. This claim has caused some alarm in the neu­ro­science and men­tal health fields, so it’s impor­tant to look a lit­tle more…

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Open question: Can coffee & Ritalin’s mental effects be delivered, safely, over a smartphone?

By SharpBrains | February 25, 2015

. Will 2015 be the year our smart­phones link up to our brains? (Pop­u­lar Sci­ence): “Thync bills itself first and fore­most as a neu­ro­science com­pa­ny. Its sole product—slated for release lat­er this year—is a smart­­phone-con­trolled wear­able device that will allow the user to active­ly alter his or her brain’s elec­tri­cal state through tran­scra­nial direct current…

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