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If you like the idea of augmenting your reality, then how about improving your mental faculties too? That’s the premise of this headset that hopes to hasten gamers’ reaction times. It uses an existing technology known as ‘transcranial direct current stimulation’, which passes a low-level electrical current (don’t worry, you won’t feel it) through your brain. Think of it as your brain cells getting a massage. In the lab this treatment does improve performance on very simple tests – like picking out a circle in a group of squares, but there are doubts as to whether this effect would extend to a highly complex video game. That said, if the foc.us headset does work, it would be one of the first gadgets on sale to actually augment human ability.

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