HaloNeuroscience

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  • Brain-altering Halo Sport headphones are available to everyone

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    11.16.2016

    Until now, Halo Neuroscience's signature brain-bending headphones were only available to very specific groups: college-level athletes, pro athletes and the military. They helped build up hype for the eventual public release. That all changes today, however: you can buy your own set of Halo Sport headphones for $699. As before, that high price stems from the Sports' "neuropriming." The over-ears send electrical currents to your brain that, at least in theory, make it extra-receptive to training. You won't be inherently faster or stronger, but you might hit your goals sooner than you would otherwise.

  • Olympic athletes are training with brain-altering headphones

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    07.26.2016

    Many of the athletes heading to the Rio Olympics are using some form of technology to help them out, but some of them are relying on particularly unusual gear. Halo Neuroscience has revealed that several athletes are using its Halo Sport headphones to (hopefully) improve the effectiveness of their training. The wearable is meant to stimulate your brain's motor cortex into a momentary "hyperplasticity" mode, where it can more effectively build neural connections -- if you're in the thick of resistance training, you may move on to heavier weights that much sooner.

  • ICYMI: Ripples in Spacetime, brain jolts to learn and more

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    Kerry Davis
    Kerry Davis
    02.12.2016

    #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-917098{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-917098, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-917098{width:570px;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-917098").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory confirmed Einstein's theory that ripples in the fabric of spacetime do, in fact, exist. They spotted the gravitational waves made when two black holes collided.