Voices in Your Head

ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.

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Denham's Dentrifice

[ElOttoGrande]

I was just having a discussion with a friend about the possibility of advertisers beaming things straight into our heads. I already think there's too much advertising in the world and i don't think marketers would use this thing ethically at all. He says if they don't use it ethically people will just get annoyed and vote with their dollars.. (just like they did with DVDs, and overpriced cds :-/)

but anyway... i'm reminded of this eerie scene from a well known sci-fi novel:

Trumpets blared.

"Denham's Dentrifice."

Shut up, thought Montag. Consider the lilies of the field.

"Denham's Dentifrice."

They toil not-

"Denham's--"

Consider the lilies of the field, shut up, shut up.

"Dentifrice ! "

He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking.

"Denham's. Spelled : D-E.N "

They toil not, neither do they . . .
A fierce whisper of hot sand through empty sieve.

"Denham's does it!"

Consider the lilies, the lilies, the lilies...
"Denham's dental detergent."

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" It was a plea, a cry so terrible that Montag found himself on his feet, the shocked inhabitants of the loud car staring, moving back from this man with the insane, gorged face, the gibbering, dry mouth, the flapping book in his fist.

Obligatory wayne's world quote

[yobbo]

Glen: "I wish to God that somebody would do something to block out the voices in my head for five minutes. Voices that scream over and over; 'Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"

Wayne: "Okay..."

I'm too lazy to read the article

[quintessent]

As they so often are, /.'s summary of the article is ambiguous where it matters most. You can shoot an ultrasonic signal at my head, but will I hear it? Is that what the article is about?

Voices in my head.

[DarkHelmet]

You know what I want you to do? I want you to go upstairs to that apartment where that guy keeps playing that Barry Manilow record 'Copacabana' over and over and over again. I want you to ring the doorbell, and when he answers the door, I want you to stab him in the neck with a number 2 pencil over and over and over again because he must PAY! Chop him up and put him in the freezer and as you leave the apartment light the place on fire!

</Denis Leary>

God I'd have fun saying that to people as they're walking down the street.