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Sony will beam stuff into your brain!

AngryHippieAngryHippie Member Posts: 214
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Sony is planning to give us the chance to taste (probably food) in games:

"PlayStation maker Sony 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. "

http://news.com.com/Games+so+good+you+can+taste+them/2100-1043_3-5657353.html?tag=nefd.top

 

If this works out cooking will become very important in gaming. Maybe we'll play Bon Appetit Online, visit each others restaurants and 'eat', maybe we'll have wineyards and make many sorts of wine.

 

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  • SatansDiscipleSatansDisciple Member Posts: 2,782

    Mmm... tasty and mind-altering...

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  • KiamdeKiamde Member CommonPosts: 5,820

    I'd use it for terrorism. I could beam my homemade eggplant casserole to all the world leaders, forcing them to eat sand to dilute the taste.

    "Whoever controls the media controls the mind..-'Jim Morrison"

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  • SerienSerien Member CommonPosts: 8,460

    Watch all those people desperate for money sue them claiming "it caused me drain bamage!"

    good Idea though

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  • AngryHippieAngryHippie Member Posts: 214
    yes this will be our big chance to run a cheapo version of macdonalds and grief people with bad meat. And imagine the game forums filled with complaints about food and lousy cooks.
  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239

    can we say THE WORLD???????????

    let me say it 10 more times. THE WORLD THE WORLD THE WORLD THE WORLD THE WORLD, ok im too lazy to type it 10 times.

    i hope they build a the world mmorpg, then i will never leave.

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  • VercadesVercades Member Posts: 1,065


    Originally posted by Kiamde

    I'd use it for terrorism. I could beam my homemade eggplant casserole to all the world leaders, forcing them to eat sand to dilute the taste.

    Hehehe sorta like one of those laser pointer things.image
  • BloodrightBloodright Member Posts: 11

    I see in the future...  *Sony is being sued for making people fat*

     

     

  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239


    Originally posted by Bloodright

    I see in the future...  *Sony is being sued for making people fat*
     
     

    one word
    WARNING LABEL/ disclaimer

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  • OrccOrcc Member Posts: 3,043

    Its kinda like the commercial sony did for the PS2 with the "PS9", although PS9 worked by sending some sort of spores into your brain ::::31::

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  • killerTwinkiekillerTwinkie Member CommonPosts: 1,694

    That would be cool as hell. Something I would definitely pay for, or at least use from a buddies house.

    Reminds me...I was watching Family Matters a longggg time ago, and Steve Urkle had created the same thing they're talking about here. Only difference, the machine caught the Cops hair on fire!

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  • dsorrentdsorrent Member CommonPosts: 1,627

    Wow.. I'm really suprised the government OK'd this since the 1970-1990's were filled with lawsuits on "subliminal messages". I'm not really sure how directly "beaming" something to alter your sensory input devices is any different then subliminally telling your sub-conscious something. To me, the main point in each is to deceive the mind into believing something that's not "real". Even playing games today, it's just something that engrosses your eyes and ears, but you still have other sensory devices existing and interacting with the real world to get you to differentiate the two. But if you take that away too, at which point does the "fake world" become the "real world".

    Wow I'm tired.. I hope that makes some sense... off to bed..


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  • DekronDekron Member UncommonPosts: 7,359

    Will bring to life the term "eat shit".

  • FarulosonothFarulosonoth Member UncommonPosts: 107

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  • ArlondilArlondil Member Posts: 6
    I heard about this.  That's really creepy.  I don't want SONY beaming anything into my brain.  They already put in enough subliminal messaging in their games.  Like this one time, I was playing SOCOM, and I had this really strange urge to go get a can of Coke, and I don't even really like the stuff!
  • dizirgeedizirgee Member UncommonPosts: 156

    Well guys i should say wake up.

    1st who will check what software will use this devices?It can connect to main server from time to time and d/l updates and stuff what it have to put into your brains ::::12::

    2nd its really easy and cheap way for folks behind the scene or whoever to put mindcontroling devices into every home
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    I dont say that there arent other methods to manipulate us,so it is why i`m not crying,but it is realy sad how easiely ppl let something like that into their homes

    call me crazy but this is 1st what comes on my mind when i saw this post ::::15::

    and for the end here is little bonus ::::40::


    Have you ever had a dream, Neo,that you were so sure was real?
    What if you were unable to wake from that dream?
    How would you know the difference between the dream world. . .
    . . .and the real world?

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    and you?

  • AngryHippieAngryHippie Member Posts: 214

    It starts with cute things like tasting, and ends with brainfeeding us "happy thoughts"?
    Yes that's perhaps possible, but maybe Sony will deliver it with some sort of control device
    something like this (notice the CE approval):

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  • punchlinepunchline Member Posts: 544

    i sure do think its possible in about 15 years but not right now
    i am not ready for this yet
    in 15 years or so we will be able to fix glitches like noones business

  • ScarisScaris Member UncommonPosts: 5,332

    Man, now wait til Larry Flint gets ahold of this.

    - Scaris

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