Posted on 11/11/2005 8:20:57 PM PST by Braak
Japan developing remote control for humans By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press Tuesday, October 25, 2005; Posted: 3:58 p.m. EDT (19:58 GMT)
ATSUGI, Japan (AP) -- We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japans top telephone company, says it is developing the technology to perhaps make video games more realistic.
A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head -- either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved. I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off.
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Would be kind of fun to play Gran Turismo 4 with that.
Big deal, the Democrats have been working on this for years
I thought the Shinto religion did this in WWII.
Holy Mr. Roboto, Batman!
I want a "Mute" button for Susan Estrich...
Love to see some DUers with the helmet on... oh wait, they already have the tin foil thing on, wouldn't quite work right...
The strangest quotes were these:
But it's more definitive, as though an invisible hand were reaching inside your brain.
And
Timothy Hullar, assistant professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., believes finding the right way to deliver an electromagnetic field to the ear at a distance could turn the technology into a weapon for situations where "killing isn't the best solution."
The big question is whether or not it will work for Senators, or does it require the subject to have a brain?
I need one for my wife
And before you know it, we will be guiding Megalon on a mission to destroy Tokyo...
I'll stick with the good ol' D-pad and analog stick myself.
I don't like the idea of things like this. Imagine in the future when they come into your home and put one of these on your head and you are under their control!
This is damn scary!
Yes, it is scary but no one thought of that before I posted. Just thought of it in terms of 'games'!
"I thought the Shinto religion did this in WWII".
Excellent point. An otherwise intelligent people died for their Emperor in compulsive huge numbers.
"From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Pearl Harbor!"
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