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Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up
blottsie sends this first-hand report on how it felt to use a wearable device called Thync, which sends small amounts of electricity into your brain for the purpose of either calming you down or making you feel energized.
While the unit I used isn't the finalized physical version, the best way to describe it is as a two-part device, one of which is fasted to the front of the right side of your temple, and one behind your right ear. It's not a helmet, which is what I absolutely assumed it would be. It's relatively discreet sort of dual patch system ... It didn't... hurt. Hurt isn't the right way to describe it. It felt like a tightness; it felt like the patch was trying to crawl across my skin. But — if you can believe this — in a good way. And while Thync was attached to the right side of my head, occasionally I felt 'tingles' pulling and hitting my brain on the left side and in the middle. I was feeling progressively awake and aware. Granted, I had patches stuck to my head sending gentle vibrations to my brain, so that might have been part of my sudden alertness. But still, after 20 minutes of Thync I just felt... better.
I was a wirehead. Still am since I still have the implant.
For a while things were good. Great really. Natural gas was cheap. Oil was less than $50 a barrel. It seemed like cheap electricity was here to stay.
Then the lights went out.
Now I sleep in the gutter and search dumpsters for a few discarded 9v's to lick for a quick fix.
Don't do the juice kids; it's not worth it.
I doubt that this device really works. If it does, I will be shocked.