The future of gaming??

[Hivetyrant]

All I can say is WOW

LONDON (Reuters) - 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." According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells. 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."

I mean, I thought it was amazing that they could aim and dircet sound, but this is just wow!!!

[Harkoliar]

cool... thats all i can say..

[Brayf]

Screw helping blind people! I need to be able to touch the strippers in Duke Nukem 3D!

[RevRuby]

Originally posted by Brayf: Screw helping blind people! I need to be able to touch the strippers in Duke Nukem 3D!

ahhh...gamers...and yet i've seen so many try to fight the "nerd-who-could-never-get-a-girl" mold, but here we have proof, one cannot change basic human nature.

[Intrepid]

what is there's an error or something?
or you know how sometimes you turn on something and the volume is turned way up, what if that happens?
and i don't like the idea of playing games over man years and having constand emr bombarding my brain.

other than that, it's a cool idea.

[Brayf]

Originally posted by RevRuby: quote: Originally posted by Brayf: Screw helping blind people! I need to be able to touch the strippers in Duke Nukem 3D!

ahhh...gamers...and yet i've seen so many try to fight the "nerd-who-could-never-get-a-girl" mold, but here we have proof, one cannot change basic human nature. [/QUOTE]The truth hurts.

[AngelofDeath]

this reminds me of the batman, the one with 2 face and the riddler(Jim Carrie).......

Mind control, we are all going to be zombies...aHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG

[RevRuby]

Originally posted by Brayf: quote: Originally posted by RevRuby: quote: Originally posted by Brayf: Screw helping blind people! I need to be able to touch the strippers in Duke Nukem 3D!

ahhh...gamers...and yet i've seen so many try to fight the "nerd-who-could-never-get-a-girl" mold, but here we have proof, one cannot change basic human nature. [/QUOTE]The truth hurts. [/QUOTE]so does running head first into a brick wall, but i try to avoid that.

[Kakero]

Originally posted by Brayf: Screw helping blind people! I need to be able to touch the strippers in Duke Nukem 3D!

Yes, imagine playing H Games. So... [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[Q'alooaith]

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."

And this, is why I hate US patent law..