{"id":205418,"date":"2017-04-03T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205418"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:57:38","slug":"navy-seals-testing-brain-zapping-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/205418-navy-seals-testing-brain-zapping-tech.html","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEALs testing brain-zapping tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naval Special Warfare units, including\u00a0SEAL teams, are testing neurostimulation technology to improve the performance of operators, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/04\/02\/super-seals-elite-units-pursue-brain-stimulating-technologies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Military.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Naval Special Warfare command did not\u00a0reveal how many soldiers are participating in the tests, but said the group is small and there have been positive outcomes so far.<\/p>\n<p>Military.com\u00a0reported that the company making the brain-stimulating device is Halo Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Halo said its technology &#8211; which\u00a0looks like a set of headphones &#8211; offers neuro-priming.<\/p>\n<p>The headset was developed for elite athletes, and uses transcranial electrical stimulation to cause\u00a0the brain\u00a0to enter a state of hyper-elasticity.<\/p>\n<p>This lets users\u00a0train\u00a0more efficiently and\u00a0develop explosive power for sports which require vertical leaps or sudden starts, said Halo.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/142714-what-it-takes-to-get-into-the-us-navy-seals.html\">What it takes to get into the US Navy SEALs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naval Special Warfare units are testing neurostimulation technology to improve the performance of operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":205428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[42338,33418],"class_list":["post-205418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-halo-neuroscience","tag-us-navy-seals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205440,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205418\/revisions\/205440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}