Watch Mishka and Fisher Wallace's raunchy electrotherapy gear in action

The FDA approved Fisher Wallace stimulator is a portable device used to treat anxiety, insomnia and depression by prompting the brain to release seratonin and other neurochemicals. It's been seen to be twice as effective as anti-depressants. The gentle electrical pulse can be self-administered twice a day and offers a real alternative to medication. And now doing so is more attractive than ever, thanks to a design collaboration with Mishka.  

You would expect that a medical treatment prescribed by over 2,000 board certified psychiatrists would adopt the same generic and inoffensive packaging as any other pharmaceutical company – which makes the Mishka collaboration all the more brilliant. Fisher Wallace aims to offer a more approachable face to big pharma, and Mishka’s input, with its hilariously insensitive lightning bolts and bloodshot eyeballs, does that effectively – if not entirely seriously.

The accompanying video, with its bizarre tongue-in-cheek pastiche of cheesy infomercials, might not give you the greatest confidence in the device’s abilities without a supplementary Google search – but what it does do is help destigmatise a treatment which has the potential to be hugely beneficial to many.

On Protein we’ve seen a great variety of tech companies making use of advances in bioengineering, such as Deus Ex Aria’s handsfree smartwatch interface and the Digestive Car’s stomach/engine hybrid. Sign up to our supplement to get the best of our content each week.