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DarkCloudInc

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Post: 7078749_1 created on Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:03:27 +0000
Posted: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:03:27 +0000

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Reuters.com

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 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. ...

Source:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8105317&src=rss/technologyNews

This is either a step towards the matrix or towards a new field for the pornography field to exploit.

Personally, I think its a new field for the pornography industry to raid.

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Post: 7078749_2 created on Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:12:14 +0000
Posted: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:12:14 +0000

xd

How did Microsoft get into that list? Are they going to give Windows an odor?

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Post: 7078749_3 created on Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:14:15 +0000
Posted: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:14:15 +0000

I sure as hell hope the porn industry raids it. And fast.

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Post: 7078749_4 created on Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:21:12 +0000
Posted: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:21:12 +0000

Mullet_Fish

I sure as hell hope the porn industry raids it. And fast.

Ammusing....
I, for one, was sure that the pornography industry would be the ones to develop this.

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Post: 7078749_5 created on Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:27:50 +0000
Posted: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:27:50 +0000

I like choices 4&5, that's what I'll be using it for xp domokun heart

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Post: 7078749_6 created on Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:10:15 +0000
Posted: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:10:15 +0000

DarkCloudInc

Personally, I think its a new field for the pornography industry to raid.

such as smells, sounds and images.

Who wants to smell porn. sweatdrop

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Post: 7078749_7 created on Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:30:17 +0000
Posted: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:30:17 +0000

binomine

DarkCloudInc

Personally, I think its a new field for the pornography industry to raid.

such as smells, sounds and images.

Who wants to smell porn. sweatdrop

Me. lol jk

But It could be used for other things like training people in SWAT teams and flight simulators and what nots.

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Post: 7078749_8 created on Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:35:42 +0000
Posted: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:35:42 +0000

See the feelies in Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Porn and sim games will pioneer this sort of thing, but the use in the medical field would be the 'most ethical' form of it. Eventually it may lead to research in AI systems approaching human intelligence, or radiotelepathy...