Original broadcast: April 28, 2016

A science prodigy, Dr. Flanagan began inventing at age 8 and was only 13 when he invented the Neurophone, hoping to aid him in learning as he slept. By age 17, Patrick was featured in the 1962 LIFE Magazine issue dedicated to America's best and brightest, in a feature story titled "Whiz Kid, Hands Down." He has since appeared in TIME Magazine, major national talk shows, countless articles, and has spoken before international audiences about the Neurophone and his other inventions across the world.

The NEO Neurophone is not a smartphone. Rather, the brand-new 2015 NEO Neurophone is famed inventor Dr. Patrick Flanagan's profound, time-tested techno-meditation device that uses blissful ultrasonic waves to soothe and center your mind and allow the possibility to make you smarter.

The NEO Neurophone is the newest and most advanced model in a long series of Neurophones dating all the way back to the '50s when sci-fi was all the rage.

Ultrasonic waves are extremely beneficial to the human brain. If you google "brain ultrasound," you'll see universities only just now catching on to how great ultrasonics are for the mind, while a child prodigy named Patrick Flanagan, only thirteen years old when THE FLY and ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN played as double features at the local Oklahoma drive-in, had already invented his first Neurophone.

Since 1958, Dr. Patrick Flanagan and later his cutting-edge company Phi Sciences that he founded in 1987 have been refining his profound Neurophone discovery, first inspired by a 1911 Hugo Gernsback science fiction tale about a sleep learning tool. Patrick's Neurophone impressed Hugo (for whom the prestigious Hugo Nebula Awards are named) deeply enough to extend a personal thank you to Dr. Flanagan for carrying out one of Gernsback's visions of the future, which included the prediction of television.