Hey everybody Kevin Rose here. Welcome back to another episode to Kevin Rose show.

This is going to be a fun episode because it really is an example of what gets me

excited about being a venture capitalist. One of the things that we get to do is

we get to see pitches from entrepreneurs that are working on very rough early stage ideas and sometimes you back these founders and their actual idea their invention their technology won't sit a lot of day for another two, three, five, sometimes ten years.

So in looking at these technologies, I feel very fortunate that I get to try some of the stuff very early on before consumers actually touch it.

And one of my areas of interest has always been brain enhancement.

What can we do to enhance our brains as we age? What can we do to enhance our performance

via our brain and also to do things like improve memory which can help with things like language

learning? And it seems that there are early indications. memory which can help with things like language learning.

And it seems that there are early indications now that the answer is brain stimulation.

That means a device that you put on your head,

it applies a small electrical current to your brain and allows your brain

to learn new things, to recruit new muscle groups for performance, and do a whole slew of other things. I first became aware of this type of technology a few years ago and this was very much dorm room days for this stuff where you would have bio hackers that were really experimenting with the stuff and sharing

different locations where they would place these pads on their heads and fire off this current into their brains

and it was very, it seemed to me to be very risky.

Like I was not going to be the person that was an early beta tester for this stuff.

But the technology has come quite a ways and we are finally have really high quality devices that are hitting the market

One of them is called HALO and I actually have the co-founder and co-cee.

Dr. Brett Winger on the show today.

He is a PhD in biomedical engineering,

and he was a former principal engineer

and clinical scientist at Neuropace, and he has his name on over 30 US patents.

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