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Monday, April 11, 2005 

Sony aims to beam sights, sounds into brain

"If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games 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."
[via: CNN.com]

4:29 PM |

Wow, talk about the next gen of eyetoy.

Posted by Blogger STEEL ONIMUSHA | 9:02 AM, April 12, 2005   

I really do not want to smell the inside of a game, considering most of them contain dark dank area's such as sewers...
blarg...

Posted by Blogger psyho case | 10:22 AM, April 12, 2005   

You never know, they could make a virtual drinking game, without the hangovers

Posted by Blogger STEEL ONIMUSHA | 1:53 PM, April 12, 2005   

Ha, Onimusha! Ain't nothin' like the real thing. :)

Posted by Anonymous The DCD | 4:35 PM, April 12, 2005   

You're right dcd, until you have to go to work the next day.

Posted by Blogger STEEL ONIMUSHA | 5:02 AM, April 13, 2005   

Im sure their experiences will contain dead pixels in their projected images, dead smells, and few dead sounds and dead tastes.
Should be quite an experience.
They will probably stuff up the transmitting frequency any way and use microwaves... Fry us all.
Kisses4Cuddles

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 7:07 AM, April 13, 2005   

now what about loading times, you'll probably twiddle your thumbs and wait till the gsme is processed to your brain.

Posted by Blogger STEEL ONIMUSHA | 9:54 AM, April 13, 2005   

hey steel,

loading times? hawh! Think commercials for products and entertainment from Sony's other divisions.

talk about intrusive advertising!

The science geek in me sees this as a very cool thing, but the pessimist sees it as another way for them to control our lives! Gahh!!

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 10:37 AM, April 13, 2005   

I think they'll use some type of subliminal/product placement directly to the brain during the loading times. If that happens, could you imagine the revenues

Posted by Blogger STEEL ONIMUSHA | 11:59 AM, April 13, 2005   

Well Sony better keep their visions with an underlying quality foundation, like they have done for quiet some time in the past.
Releasing something that has bugs or hardware problems (dead pixels in this sony case) and then without even rectifying the problem later, can taint the product and then the company name.
Lets think of a product that suffered like this... ummm oh yes n - gage.
Duggie

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 1:47 AM, April 14, 2005   

I would like everybody who actually bought a PSP with no less than five dead pixels to please raise your hands.

Posted by Blogger Huang-sensei | 2:13 AM, April 16, 2005   

Q.E.D., bitches.

Posted by Blogger Huang-sensei | 5:29 PM, April 16, 2005   

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