Brain manipulation

[many2]

the future looks bright (or dark) Look where Sony is heading :

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050407-4785.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1557733,00.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624944.600

Forget the red and blue pills, ultrasonic waves are the future :)

[papadoc]

plug me in

[robotfunk]

all we need is a bag of money and a bag of ganja, to think up spaced ideas like these and patent them, without having any clue how to technically realize them.

I didnt know you could actually patent fantasies like that without technically describing the functionality.

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."

Isnt this some kind of april fool that took too long to spread on the net?

[balther]

Hm. Here is company taken patent on a theory, not on any invention!!!
I know that many people has been involved in this kind of work and now I read that a company has taken patent on there work.
I don?t know what to say.
Balther
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[balther]

About two years ago I was invited to a meeting with a group of scientists working with all kind of communications and entertainments issues. My introductory presentation was about some of the problems we face when working with VR. One of the major problems is to add gravitation and weight to the VR world.
I talked about how scientist in medicine has come up with some experiments controlling parts of the brain and body from out coming impulses and how this technique can be used to control gravitation and weight in a VR world. (The mechanic solution is a gyro, suit and wires)
During and after the meeting I discovered that several of the participants experimented and worked with similar or/and reversed techniques.
Now I ask if you, I or anybody else make a device using some of these techniques, who owns it? And is it rightly that anybody having money enough can bye the patent on an idea many people has worked on for long time?
I say no and I say it is a sure way to slavery! Imagine when they own all of your body and all your ideas and you have to pay each and every time you move, think and...
Balther
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[elbows]

If the system has any sanity left then the actual creator of any specific technology to do with this stuff will still be able to patent it. Like if someone patented the idea of the toothbrush, I could still patent a specific shape of the brush part to get the job done.
In practise this means that companies often end up doing deals to use eachothers patents.

I cant say Im a big fan of the current patent system because it isnt very accessible to people without much money, but I can see the need for some kind of intellectual property laws. I dont believe that vague ideas should be patented, and I worry what will happen as more and more software patents start to exist.

[balther]

As you I believe in intellectual property rights in some sort of way, I have to else my work might be used against my interest.
But in some ways it has goon to fare.
You mention software and there are some queer patents out there preventing people from working with special techniques and ideas.
Another issue is the industrial patents on our genes. In the further we might have to pay for having children.
Well or else it?s a wonderful world at least we can make it so?
Balther
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[sketchyj]

sounds like more of a clever marketing technique to make Sony look like the cutting edge trend setters that they are always seeking to be viewed as. Every 13 year old geek with a playstation is imagining how sony might be able to fulfill the ultimate techno wet dream of getting laid electronically.

[Bagbag]

nation of robots :)