Let’s face it: Taking it easy isn’t very easy. Meditation classes, binge drinking, marijuana, movies with sexy blue alien cats — these are the things we hardworking Americans rely on to help us unwind. But what if we could eliminate stress altogether? What if we could train our brains to stay relaxed forever?

That’s the idea behind Harcos Laboratories “most painful toy hack ever.” The team of kooky geeks was intrigued with Mattel’s Mindflex, a wireless headset that reads the frequency of your brainwaves to levitate a ball. LEDs on the headset light up if you’re concentrating hard; if you’re calm, no LEDs light up. Harcos Lab wondered, “How can we put that to more practical use in our everyday lives?”

Easy: Reprogram the Mindflex to shock the bejeezus out of you if you concentrate too hard. Harcos hooked up the leads of the LEDs to a transistor/resistor relay network so they’d instead activate an electric-shock kit made by QKit. The end result? Concentrate a little, and you’ll get zapped a little. Concentrate hard, and you’ll get an electrical pulse that will make you think you’ve wandered onto the set of Green Mile. What a shockingly brilliant solution to all our problems!

Actually, the hack wasn’t that easy. Harcos admits it was difficult opening up the Mindflex. A full how-to is over on Harcos’ blog. Check out the lab’s Mindflex hack in the video below.

(Thanks, Jon!)

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Read this discussion between Dr. Lafayette Granger and Crazy W. Fox, a Native American Indian; a descendent of Crazy Horse who help defeat Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Dr. Granger: It is evident you live in a dream world; It the trend that that must be changed. Ellsworth said when you get into a bad situation you must change it as soon as possible. One person said I would rather be an inch from Hell going in the other direction than a mile from Hell going towards it.
It is not dream that President Obama is an inch from financial Hell for America.
Crazy W. Fox: Without question he is brilliant and charming; however, he is surrounded with questionable unqualified characters. This is not suppressing because he has always been attracted to extremist like Wright and Bill Ayers. Michelle is charming and smart too. She was never proud of her country two years ago but now expresses great joy at being an American. They have two beautifully children and are a happy family.
We believed in Obama and thought he would transform America utilizing his talents to help us. Our hopes have been shattered. He is a Camelion.
Dr. Granger: I believe President Obama has helped America because he has awakened the children of the “Greatest Generation” and they have the same blood flowing in their veins as their fathers. I expect to see a return to our founding fathers constitution and elect people to congress and the White House who will save America. It will not be Lindsey Graham, Charlie Crist, or John McCain because they are like the children of Israel who needed to die before reaching the Promised Land. It will be Rubio, Palin, Brown and new blood that will stop spending us into oblivion, reduce taxes, and put prayer back into our schools.
Stop dreaming and wake up to reality that we are not far from Financial Hell and must turn 180% immediately.

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Mindflex Hack: Relax, or Get SHOCKED

Mindflex, the brandwave-detecting game, will probably give you a headache no matter what. But Harcos Labs decided to take it further, with a hacked Mindflex that shocks you when you concentrate too hard. The result: science, and hilarious shock videos.

The original Mindflex headset indicates how hard you're concentrating with a series LEDs. But with a little ingenuity and an electroshock kit, the devilish geniuses at Harcos turned it into something of a torture device:

Harcos hooked up the leads of the LEDs to a transistor/resistor relay network so they'd instead activate an electric-shock kit made by QKit. The end result? Concentrate a little, and you'll get zapped a little. Concentrate hard, and you'll get an electrical pulse that will make you think you've wandered onto the set of Green Mile.

Of course, the more worried you are about getting shocked, the higher the voltage. Which is cruel. And unusual. And so much fun to watch.

Send an email to Brian Barrett, the author of this post, at bbarrett@gizmodo.com.

The two-month anniversary of the Haiti quake is fast approaching. The devastation is shocking. Hundreds of thousands are dead and wounded; over a million have been displaced. The tent cities and congested hospitals of Port-au-Prince are a reminder that Haiti's wounds are still fresh. Nevertheless, the transition to rebuilding has begun.

As the Obama Administration and Congress begin to chart the U.S. aid strategy for Haiti, we should not overlook a simple measure that could provide tremendous support for this struggling nation: Congress should temporarily relax the annual cap on lawful immigration from Haiti by permitting greater numbers of Haitians with permanent resident and U.S. citizen family members in the U.S. to emigrate here.

The Haiti redevelopment bill now under review in the Senate presents an opportunity for Congress to make additional lawful immigration possible. By adding a provision to the bill, Congress could allow for a time-limited loosening of the immigration ceilings for this earthquake-battered country.

Under U.S. immigration law, only a fixed number of eligible Haitians with family members in the U.S. can receive “green cards” each year. Congress has created an annual ceiling on immigration of this type, parceling out percentages of the yearly visa allotments based on complicated mathematical formulae. Under this model, even Haitians whose visa petitions have already been granted by the Department of Homeland Security will be required to wait several years before they advance through the backlog created by the entry limits.

Temporarily lifting these migration caps for Haiti makes sense for two reasons. First, lifting the caps would effectively serve as economic aid to Haiti. The Haitian Diaspora sends more than one billion dollars to Haiti in remittances annually, a sum that makes up more than twenty-five percent of the Haitian gross domestic product. Combining a relaxation of immigration caps with a fast track visa regime would increase the number of Haitians legally working in the U.S. and allow for a rapid influx of cash to supplement this stream of remittances to Haiti.

Many in the United States have given generously to Haiti. Temporarily lifting the immigration ceilings for a subset of Haitian emigrants would allow more Haitians to help rebuild their country by working overseas.

Moreover, the Haitians permitted to enter under the temporarily relaxed quotas are those who would eventually receive permission to enter and work in the U.S. and later send remittances home to their families in Haiti. The program would merely speed up this process during this critical moment in Haiti's development.

The second reason the U.S. should temporarily relax the immigration quotas is historical. In the past thirty years, the U.S. has typically responded to crisis in Haiti by reflexively closing the border. A limited lifting of the caps would mark a turn away from the U.S.'s disgraceful history of exclusion.

During the 1980s, when Haiti was under the thumb of the brutal Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship and a series of repressive, military juntas, the U.S. interdicted 21,461 Haitians on the high seas. Out of these 21,461, only 6 were permitted to enter the U.S. to apply for asylum.

During the 1990s, tens of thousands of Haitians fled military death squads and their attachés in Haiti after a coup d'état ousted the country's first democratically-elected president. The U.S. responded by detaining thousands of these Haitians at Guantanamo Bay and, later, by directly returning countless others without any assessment of their eligibility for asylum.

In 2004, following a coup d'état and a wave of political violence, Haitians were once again interdicted on the high seas and detained at Guantanamo Bay. In order to further deter flight from Haiti, the U.S. government tried to broker a deal whereby Haitians with credible asylum claims would be detained on the small, South Pacific island-nation of Nauru. The message was clear: attempt to enter the U.S., and we'll imprison you half way around the world.

Even in the immediate aftermath of the recent earthquake, the U.S. diverted scarce resources to readying the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay and the Krome Service Processing Center in Miami for the detention of Haitians fleeing the earthquake's devastation. While private contractors prepped the detention sites at Guantanamo, Haitians seeking emergency medical treatment died awaiting evacuation flights to the U.S. The specter of masses of fleeing Haitians never materialized, and the Guantanamo tent city now sits empty.

There is, however, a path that leads out of this bleak past. Canada has already taken efforts to expedite visa processing for Haitians significantly affected by the earthquake. The U.S. has taken positive steps as well, welcoming medical evacuees and granting Temporary Protected Status to eligible Haitians already in the U.S. at the time of the quake. The Obama administration and Congress should continue this positive trend.

This history shows that when crisis strikes Haiti, the fear-driven response of sealing the U.S. border is not the answer. In the current crisis, the wise policy is to do just the opposite: temporarily lift the ceiling on lawful immigration from Haiti and expedite the processing of visa applications so that eligible Haitians can come to the U.S.

Given the tragic themes that dominate the U.S.'s treatment of Haitian immigrants in the past, the U.S. should learn from this sad history and implement a wise and humane immigration policy towards Haiti, which allows Haitians to help in rebuilding their country. Facilitating lawful Haitian immigration to the U.S. is an important step in this direction.

To contact your elected officials about supporting Haiti's recovery, click here: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

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Harrison insists he doesn't want the Rozlyn drama to detract from the important stuff.

“It is my hope that none of this nonsense takes away from what is really important here and that's what's going to take place next Monday night during our finale.”

What is happening next Monday? Oh yeah, Jake will decide which girl, either Tenley or Vienna, will become America's next top ex-fiancee.

That's right, we said it.

Mr. Harrison, the drama is what draws viewers and keeps you employed. If it were boring, no one would watch because for a dating show, you have a remarkably poor record. Only one 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette' relationship has brought about a wedding — Trista and Ryan Sutter.

So if the Rozlyns of the world didn't exist to create problems, you'd be left with an unwatchable failure. Who would tune in to see that? At least the drama keeps it entertaining.

Furthermore, you seem more than willing to vilify Rozyln for what she may or may not have done. (And at this point, does it really matter?) But you easily forgave Jason Mesnick for what we all know he did — dump his 'Bachelor'-fiancee Melissa Rycroft on National TV.

Mesnick originally picked Rycroft. But then backtracked on his decision, switching to runner-up Molly Malaney. He then decided the best thing to do was announce this on the 'After the Final Rose' show. Obviously, this is the preferred method of dumping for reality stars.

“I don't know if it makes it any easier for you to swallow, but they are in love and are fighting like hell under an extreme amount of pressure to make this work. I told him that he must really love Molly to have done this,” Harrison wrote of the scandal.

“I wish you all could have hung out with us and just seen that these are real people going through life just like you and I are. It just so happens that what they do is magnified times a thousand because they are on TV,” he added.

By Harrison's measure, if it's all out in the open, it's OK, but if it's a secret and you deny it — it's not? That doesn't add up.

'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' are two silly shows. Audiences drool as they watch beautiful men and women live and date together, but they stay for the fights, the scandals and all the other ridiculousness. Not because they think two people are actually falling in love.

Harrison insists he doesn't want the Rozlyn drama to detract from the important stuff.

“It is my hope that none of this nonsense takes away from what is really important here and that's what's going to take place next Monday night during our finale.”

What is happening next Monday? Oh yeah, Jake will decide which girl, either Tenley or Vienna, will become America's next top ex-fiancee.

That's right, we said it.

Mr. Harrison, the drama is what draws viewers and keeps you employed. If it were boring, no one would watch because for a dating show, you have a remarkably poor record. Only one 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette' relationship has brought about a wedding — Trista and Ryan Sutter.

So if the Rozlyns of the world didn't exist to create problems, you'd be left with an unwatchable failure. Who would tune in to see that? At least the drama keeps it entertaining.

Furthermore, you seem more than willing to vilify Rozyln for what she may or may not have done. (And at this point, does it really matter?) But you easily forgave Jason Mesnick for what we all know he did — dump his 'Bachelor'-fiancee Melissa Rycroft on National TV.

Mesnick originally picked Rycroft. But then backtracked on his decision, switching to runner-up Molly Malaney. He then decided the best thing to do was announce this on the 'After the Final Rose' show. Obviously, this is the preferred method of dumping for reality stars.

“I don't know if it makes it any easier for you to swallow, but they are in love and are fighting like hell under an extreme amount of pressure to make this work. I told him that he must really love Molly to have done this,” Harrison wrote of the scandal.

“I wish you all could have hung out with us and just seen that these are real people going through life just like you and I are. It just so happens that what they do is magnified times a thousand because they are on TV,” he added.

By Harrison's measure, if it's all out in the open, it's OK, but if it's a secret and you deny it — it's not? That doesn't add up.

'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' are two silly shows. Audiences drool as they watch beautiful men and women live and date together, but they stay for the fights, the scandals and all the other ridiculousness. Not because they think two people are actually falling in love.

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