Professor Snyder told AFP that the device could come in handy "if you wanted to look at the world, just briefly, with a child's view, if you wanted to look outside the box."
Originally, the professor studied accident victims who suddenly burst out with creativity, and unusually gifted beings not dissimilar to Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Man."
What he discovered led him to create a device that suppresses your current knowledge bank in order to free your creative impulses.
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