How Did I Miss this Kickstarter?

> Just when you thought your smartphone was pluripotent....now you can control cyborg cockroaches http://t.co/RHiCUp3BaT no thanks! — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2013 [https://twitter.com/EricTopol/statuses/387793122031198209] I [first heard about stuff like this in August 2012](http://mikeschultz.ghost.io/backyard-brains-and-ot/)but I…

A New Empi

I was given an Empi machine Tuesday. It’s an electrotherapy device that ” produces a mild electrical current transmitted via lead wires to electrodes placed on the skin.” This is how it looks on my arm. On Wednesday, I saw this via @FastCompany [http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671273/watch-body-parts-get-zapped-to-the-beat-in-this-wild-music-video#1]…

Backyard Brains and OT

Jad Abumrad posted this yesterday. > After my talk on Sunday, this guy show me how to hook up a severed cockroach leg to an iPad pic.twitter.com/LwMTcCVZ [http://t.co/LwMTcCVZ] — Jad Abumrad (@JadAbumrad) August 21, 2012 [https://twitter.com/JadAbumrad/statuses/237901870914469889] As the video from…

Giving Empi a Try

Trying the Empi system on my wrist. It’s pretty amazing—sort of like a Galvani response on my wrist. Is this what therapy has done for me—moved me down the chain of evolution to frog level? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, great. ScienceChicks [http://sciencechicks.tumblr.com/post/31402463990/lucia-galeazzi-galvani-1743-1788-was-the-wife-of] reveals…