Brainwave Biofeedback at Home? ReLax, it's Cheap and Cool!

photo: gloggerSo this is a review of the ReLax Kit by OP Innovations, which (fear not), looks nothing like the photo above. It's quite a bit less scary.The ReLax Kit costs less than $50, and promises to monitor your brainwaves, posture, and muscle tension using advanced bio-signal tracking.It comes with a smallish TrueSense biosensor you wear on your forehead, no gel or anything required.  And it has a little controller thing that flashes colored lights based on how stressed you are.Or, if you want to get fancier, the controller plugs into a PC to show you your actual brainwaves and muscle tension in real time on your screen.Pretty amazing for less than $50, right?I've actually checked out brainwave biofeedback before, because I've always been kind of a nutball curious, but home kits are insanely expensive and look terribly cumbersome and complicated to use.  So, when I got an offer to get the ReLax Science Kit for free to review, I was psyched!Wanna hear how it went?Overall Impressions of the ReLax Kit (for Lazy Product Review Skimmers):This thing has really incredible and powerful technology for such a cheap price! You can indeed see your brain and muscles reacting to what you are thinking and seeing.  Early adapters may want to jump right on it before the OP Innovations people figure out that if they just made it prettier, a little easier to use, and a bit more reliable, they could charge hundreds of dollars for this gizmo.On the other ha...
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