Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 06, 2005, 05:34:50 PM
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If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp (SNE.N). has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create videogames in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf.
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images.
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."
Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves.
A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."
It appears that Sony has managed to patent a theory?? And do I really want them messing with my head - literally?
Post by: Don'tHate742 on April 06, 2005, 06:20:55 PM
What is my idea you asked?
Well imagine a helmet that can read your brain waves. Where when you tell yourself to walk, it knows that your walking. Don't get it?
Well this device could be used to see what the hell people in comas are thinking. In future editions, there could be games where all you have to do is put on a helmet and close your eyes. It knows that you want to move, it knows that you want to jump at that point in time, but in reality, your not moving or jumping....your sitting, or laying.
CRAZY!
Post by: Mario on April 06, 2005, 08:16:45 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on April 06, 2005, 10:50:36 PM
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Post by: Don'tHate742 on April 07, 2005, 11:57:14 AM
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2005, 12:37:01 PM
I could potentially learn spanish while I sleep one night and calculus the next night. While I see the potential of this technology, I really don't trust the people that would be behind it. Sony always seems to leave big gaping backdoors in their software and hardware, and the last thing I would need is some hacker tapping into my brain while I was innocently trying to do something else.
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 07, 2005, 01:47:46 PM
What's this with the patenting though? I don't know anything about patent laws or whatever, but this seems similar to me patenting a time machine or an interstellar transport beam.....
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 07, 2005, 02:20:04 PM
Post by: matt oz on April 08, 2005, 01:24:45 PM
Then you'll all have to pay me royalties for being hungry.
Post by: Kirby (cheat wizard) on April 08, 2005, 08:01:59 PM
I think you could only patent idears that are possible within a certan amount of time I guess.
Post by: Avinash_Tyagi on April 09, 2005, 05:35:12 AM
And how far a leap would it be before they could read information from your brain without your knowledge, or even worse rewrite sections of your mind, erase memories, change personality?
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 09, 2005, 05:08:39 PM
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Originally posted by: Kirby (cheat wizard)
Errr Bill Aurion flying cars already exsist they,re like helecopters only with the propela on the bottom and it's shaped like a car.
I think you could only patent idears that are possible within a certan amount of time I guess.
Not a flying car...
Post by: The Omen on April 10, 2005, 07:19:36 AM
