Oh, interesting!
> These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use
I mean, if you take all of the common RF spectrum and look at what is reserved for civilian use, the vast majority is not freely usable. I'm not surprised it's within licensed spectrum.
> the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities
Right.
> We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
Riiiiight.
This went from fun project to three levels of conspiracy theory real fast.
And looking at the contents (instead of the summary/abstract) more critically, they investigated >=10kHz waves. The brain waves that I know of are in the range of 1-150Hz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_oscillation
... actually, this page is a joke, right? The more I read on the page, no way that this is serious.
Yes, I think it's very much a joke.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stewart-butterfield-epic-resi...
Which reminded me of a quote:
"For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one. But alas the reality was the mediocrity." — Le Carre