Thinking Cap can unlock your inner genius

It’s done by transcranial magnetic stimulation and a side effect is that it’s apparently helpful in treating depression. Maybe we should order a few hundred for Congress! Or one for Sarah Palin…

CNet News:

Mirroring the way savants are both brilliant and mentally not quite there (remind you of any techies you know?), the Thinking Cap’s scientific milliners use tiny magnetic pulses to either deaden a part of your brain or excite it beyond its normal level of stimulus, thereby allowing the excited part to reveal the full glory of its capabilities. [...]

Once the Thinking Cap buzzes experimentees up for 10 or 15 minutes, some are able to draw in a far more lifelike manner. Others, and this will please many at this site greatly, become far better editors, able to spot mistakes in a text that they could not see before the OUT OF ORDER sign had been hung on certain areas of their brains.

There is, however, a little bad news. The effects of the Thinking Cap zap wear off after an hour.

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