Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/12/combat-stress-with-apollo-neuro-the-wearable-that-helps-your-body-fight-anxiety-naturally.html
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I’m all about unnatural, which is why I prefer Cthulhu.
$300 pulse activated wrist vibrator
Tag. You’re it.
OK then … HOW does it “monitor my central nervous system”
At homeopathic levels, or, in layman’s terms, not at all.
Why in my day, when we were under house arrest, we were not given vibrators!
the magical thinking almost works with the wrist, but I don’t move my ankle close to my brain very often
I’ve only ever done it accidentally.
It said so on the hospital admissions form.
One can buy four nice bottles of Scotch for that price.
Stress relieved!
An acquaintance recommended that I visit a homeopathic doctor months ago, nearer the start of a pandemic. I didn’t know much about homeopathy, so I asked my therapist. He said “go read the wikipedia article on homeopathy, then decide”.
I tapped out after the first paragraph. Just brutal.
Apparently by monitoring your peripheral nervous system.
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I so wanted this to work. Then y’all come along and fling out your good sense.
Maybe if I get the Proctoprod version.
I do have a Kardia unit (recommended by my Cardiologist). I discovered my resting heart rate was way faster than my colleagues when they tried it. It just goes to show that I took my job way more seriously than they did. Past tense. I left. Still trying to shake off that stress.
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