No, this strange-looking headgear won't enhance telepathic powers or anything like that, but it may reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in a matter of weeks. This is according to Dr. Gordan Dougal, a director of the Virulite medical research company based in County Durham, England.

In a nutshell, what Dr. Dougal's experimental helmet does is bathe the wearer's brain with infrared light, thus stimulating the growth of brain cells.  The helmet is essentially the next step in research on the benefits of exposure to infrared light, which has been found to reverse memory loss in mice. Dr. Dougal has claimed that the ten minutes of infrared hat treatment a day will be enough to have an effect.

Currently all you can do with dementia is to slow down the rate of decay - this new process will not only stop that rate of decay but partially reverse it.

We age because our cells lose the desire to regenerate and repair themselves. This ultimately results in cell death and decline of the organ functions - for the brain resulting in memory decay and deterioration in general intellectual performance. But what if there was a technology that told the cells to repair themselves and that technology was something as simple as a specific wavelength of light?

The implications of this research at Sunderland are enormous - so much so that in the future we could be able to affect and change the rate at which our bodies age.