Dave Pell on the I-Doser, and infor­ma­tion over­load:

Here’s my mes­sage to kids: If you think nar­row­ing things down to one incom­ing sig­nal gets you high, wait until you try zero. The only thing bet­ter than being totally out of your mind is being totally in it.

– from Con­fes­sion #73: Dude, I’m Totally Wasted on the Internet

Inter­est­ingly, I tried the I-Doser the other day. I’ve not given it enough of a go to know whether there’s really any­thing to it, but hav­ing found pzizz very help­ful for sleep, I’m always happy to play with a new toy that claims to do crazy things to your brain with audio (well, with the pos­si­ble excep­tion of Emer­son, Lake and Palmer.) I must try it again a few times and see whether it seems to do any­thing or not.

If noth­ing else, it might hold the rest of the world at bay for a while. Although White Noise for iPhone is also pretty good for that, and makes no claims about bin­au­ral stim­u­la­tion. Some­times you just want to hear a rain­storm, or some waves, rather than the upstairs neigh­bours’ over­loud Span­ish dance music. (Yeah, really.)