Researchers are developing a computer interface to boost your brain's performance by delivering it an electric shock — and they think eSports gamers will be lining up to get their hands on it.

The Perth research group — named HUMM — is developing a "brain computer interface" that makes your mind work both faster and better by delivering a shock of electricity.

Its prototype device consists of a headset with four electrodes to measure brain waves. It then stimulates the brain to improve performance.

HUMM's four founders started developing the device with the support of UWA's innovation quarter, and they're aiming to sell it first to eSports gamers.

"It is a good place for us to build the core competency in the technology and the understanding of the neuroscience," co-founder Iain McIntyre said.

"For us to be able to build products in the future that will target 7 billion people rather than 250 million."

eSports gamers are the team's first target market. ( ABC News: Elicia Kennedy )

HUMM neuroscientist Tim Fiori said gamers offered the perfect market because they were accustomed to wearing headsets and used similar mental processes to pilots and long-haul drivers.

"We see what we are building to be applicable for really everybody in terms of learning, education even alertness, Dr Fiori said.

It was Dr Fiori's research into spinal injury rehabilitation as a UWA medical student that first inspired the idea.

"By applying the stimulation we can actually increase neuroplasticity and the ability to form new connections," Dr Fiori said.

Every two weeks, the team builds a new model on a 3D printer. The prototypes are based on the designs of engineer Chris Norman, who has just returned from working with NASA.

"I was doing a lot of rapid prototyping over there, 3D printing," he said.

"So I have brought that mind set and those skills into this here."

The team is constantly refining the prototype, making a new 3D printed device every fortnight. ( ABC News: Elicia Kennedy )

While HUMM was not yet ready to publish its scientific results, Mr McIntyre said it hoped to build on research already showing stimulating the brain can double a person's short term memory and even predict a mistake before it's made.

"So say you are driving a car or a motorbike and you are about to lose attention swerve onto the wrong side, this device would be able to predict in advance the mental state that would come around before that happened," he said.

But while gamers are likely to accept any new technology that improves performance, will the wider public?

"A lot of people bring up, when they first hear of this technology, 'oh are you electrocuting my brain?'," Mr McIntyre said.

"It is not dangerous, the technology we are working with. We are using a current less than an electric toothbrush."

It might sound like a radical idea, but Facebook is already working on brain computer technology that will turn your thoughts into text — while Elon Musk's Neuralink is developing a brain implant.

"We want to make it a democratised technology where everyone has access," Mr McIntyre said.

"Rather than people from rich companies in silicon valley using the device themselves to get ahead."