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My idea is a versilitle device that wraps around someones ear or is worn like a headband or a hair clip. The intinal model would be non-invasive. To read brainwaves and stuff there would be those electronode things that doctors/EEG tech use's. If nessicary we can have a wireless connection between these sensor nodes and the external earpeice. It would have to be pretty secure tho. After all privacy and ethics are top of the list, as this is only supposed to be an assistance tool that helps humans and there day-to-day functioning as life has become more demanding,faster, unrelenting and draining. This is especially difficult since we have had challenges and are in a mental hesalth crisis and lonliness epidemic. Not to mention COVID threw us all for a loop.

This device is something I have repeatedly though back to since Feburary of 2024. It pesters and entices me. I see it as a personal solution to things (at least in part; as its not the whole solution).

My rational: The idea is a device which can assist people as they move day-to-day. While I have heard and believe that AI cannot be a solution to everything, as there are always consequences (some point to technology creating our lonilessness and mental health crisis and I do not want to worsen our problems); what I do believe is that if AI is a tool then we can use it for good to help improve ourselves-at least until we figure out and get to a point where we don't need this tool. And even then you still have the tool in case another senerio like this one arises.

Although this being said prehapes my other Rational is because this idea has essentially tourmented me for a while, along with Soceity's idea of "you can make it to the top too no matter what" and the Hustle Culture that has prevaded us for a while on the internet. Additionally living as Gen-Z and hearing about all the problems in the world and stuff I want to try and solve some of these or make things better. I'm not going to tear down systems (as then you have to rebuild them and could get it wrong or do it worse) but I'm going to fix them and improve them and fix the holes where I find them. But mainly this is because I have tormented myself with fantasies of grander and the combinations of wanting to help improve systems, my own issues and isolation and loneliness, Hustle Culture and thinking that "I have to do more than just exist". All of these have lead me to this moment. (no thanks in part due to my ADHD and the Default Mode Network)

So do I know if this is good and needed: No.
Might it help: Possible
Is it worth a shot: Maybe, at least my brain will hopefully stop complaining. And hey-maybe it does help other people or at least people similar to me.

The device would have 4 (or maybe 5) ports for 4 (or 5) Tiny USB drives/data chips. These would contain processors and AI's that would help assist the wearer in a number of diffrent aspects of there life.

A few examples being:
1>monitor and recorder (for emotions
2>Productivity/Adulting Aid/Discipline Aid
3>Self-help/Emotional Aid/de-stressor
4>Logical/understanding chip/Sympathy/empaythy (I don't know about this one)
5>Costume port (Therapy chip, learning chip,
If this pans out we could perhaps connect it to a biochips (such as what neurolink has done) but this of course would be later on if deemed viable and wanted.