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Is DIY Brainhacking Safe?

Posted by Unknown on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:04PM from the frying-your-brain-for-fun-and-profit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My colleague at IEEE Spectrum, Eliza Strickland, looked at the home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) movement. People looking to boost creativity, or cure depression, are attaching electrodes to their heads using either DIT equipment or rigs from vendors like Foc.us. Advocates believe experimenting with the tech is safe, but a neuroscientist worries about removing the tech from lab safeguards..."

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Predictions? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-17 14:13 · Score: 4, Funny

How long until the first Darwin Award is given to someone attempting this?
Of course by Kardos · 2014-03-17 15:05 · Score: 4, Funny

I did it last week. Setting up the electrodes was the easy part. The hard part was setting up the electrodes!
Re:Stupid by Darinbob · 2014-03-17 16:07 · Score: 4, Funny

With a name like foc.us it's gotta be good. With all the money they saved by not hiring someone to find out if it sounds funny when spoken aloud they added extra safeguards.