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Thanks for sharing this. "Thync's Wearable Won't Just Measure Your Mood, It Will Fix It: Vinod Khosla and others bet $13 million on Thync’s mind-altering technology" (2014) Vinod Khosla (SUN, Kleiner-Perkins, Khosla Ventures) "You might not have to wonder for long because mood-altering wearables are in testing, and heading towards becoming a consumer product. One of the first will be from a startup company, Thync, which announced yesterday that it aims to bring consumer brain-tweaking wearables to market. Thync has been in stealth mode for three years (since 2011); it pulled back the curtains on Wednesday, announcing that it has raised $13 million from Khosla Ventures and other investors, and intends to give other mind-altering substances like caffeine and alcohol some serious competition. Thync says it is using “neurosignalling,” that is, a form of transcranial direct-current stimulation designed to shift a person’s brain waves in order to make her feel more energized or more relaxed. The company has tested the gadget, which goes on the head, not the wrist, on 2000 people to date. It has approval to do such research, but getting broader approval to put the device on the open consumer market may take a while. Thync’s technology was developed at Harvard and Stanford; the company was founded by Isy Goldwasser, a serial entrepreneur who also founded Symyx Technologies, and Jamie Tyler, an associate professor of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Thync’s website doesn’t offer a lot of detail; it states “Thync Vibes are intelligent waveforms delivered via neurosignaling. You select Vibes on-demand for your shift to an energized, relaxed or focused state.”" 10 Years Ago they were talking about wirelessly manipulating your neurons via waveform signaling from a wearable. This is ONE instance.