14 DAY TRIAL // Produced by Barcelona-based Neuroelectrics, this cloth/device looks like it had been developed by Soviet medics and engineers for space exploration in the 1950s.
With wires and protruding electronics packs at the back, the soft helmet is actually a tool to electrically stimulate the brain in order to tread depression and strokes. This little electrical cap could also be used as a remote observing tool by medics while their patients stay at home.
Amusingly dubbed "Fitbit for the brain," the cap will be able to diagnose and monitor medical conditions by constantly observing brainwaves frequencies. With the help of a set of electrodes placed around the cap, the device will stimulate the brain via a low electrical current emanated by the electrodes.
The treatment of depression will be done by targeting different parts of the brain. Using a built-in encephalography, the cap will then scan the brain and will locate the place of the problem. Then by interpreting the brainwave patterns, a certain diagnosis will be reached and a treatment will begin.
The treatment will consist in sending low electrical current to the area of the brain in question via the electrodes for about 20 minutes, over a certain number of sessions. Except for a 15-second itching sensations, there is nothing else patients would feel, but a lasting and quite healthy effect is said to be taking place, being much more effective that any sort of chemically enhanced anti-depressives.
Neuroelectronics hopes it will be able to raise enough funds to see if it is able to expand device's functions and if it can work for other diseases via clinical trials.