Is DIY Brainhacking Safe?

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..."

Predictions?

[Anonymous Coward]

How long until the first Darwin Award is given to someone attempting this?

Go ahead

[msobkow]

Go ahead. Fry your brain. It's not like you're using it or anything. :(

Betteridge's law of headlines

[SuperBanana]

No.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] )

Of course

[Kardos]

I did it last week. Setting up the electrodes was the easy part. The hard part was setting up the electrodes!

Re:Stupid

[Darinbob]

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.