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DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly
New submitter Morganth writes "According to New Scientist, researchers at DARPA are investing efforts in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) machines to cut the time it takes to train snipers. From the article: 'a 2-milliamp current will run through the part of the brain associated with object recognition — an important skill when visually combing a scene for assailants.' The story also gives a nice explanation on the psychology of 'flow' — the state that experts tend to enter (e.g. programmers, tennis players, pianists) when focusing on their work." We covered similar research done on mice to improve their memory in September.
"I know kung fu."
I am officially gone from
I knew there would be a use for that old Electroshock Therapy machine that I picked up dirt cheap from military surplus.
If you wait long enough, wacky medical treatments become in vogue again. Like leeches, that are used for skin grafts.
My original plans of using the Electroshock Therapy machine to keep the neighborhood kids off my lawn did not go down too well with the neighbors, the police, and various other government agencies. Until they found no law against owning an Electroshock Therapy, and threatening to use it on kids on my lawn.
By then the neighbors wouldn't let their kids anywhere near my ranch anyway, so I guess it was effective after all.
Now about my plans for opening a private sniper school . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!