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High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory
unassimilatible writes "MIT will reportedly announce new high-tech glasses which they claim will improve memory by up to 50%. The spectacles are implanted with a CPU that sends messages in the form of light to a mini TV screen on the glasses. The messages - like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine - flash before your eyes at 180th of a second. Pardon me, but I'll wait for the reviews, since I am still smarting from buying those X-ray glasses in the back of magazines." These "memory glasses" were also discussed at the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
When you overclock the CPU? Do you remember even more?
and those,
and those . . .
No beer, no TV make Lifthrasir something something
Pardon me, but I'll wait for the reviews, since I am still smarting from buying those X-ray glasses in the back of magazines."
I know it's you, Weasel Boy!
Why stop at flashing names for a second? If we can get these advanced enough, they may well be able to serve as a monitor for a PDA, Gameboy, or wearable PC. I'd love to surf the web with my sunglasses while sitting in class.
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Really facinating shtuff. The HUD was wired to a wearble pc setup, so it could display other things, but whenever you looked at someone wearing a namebadge with an IR transmitter (sorry, no facial recog), it would flash their info on your screen, too fast to consiously notice it, but enough to subconciously trigger recall.
--I don't want the world, I just want your half.
I was under the impression that the brain took a minimum of 1/60th of a second to register information from the visual cortex.
This sounds like the old, failed experiments in flash-subliminal programming.
I can see it now
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So what happens if I forget my glasses?
Whatever it is I'm complaining about, I'm sure the Republicans did it. This is
Imagine hacking someones glasses to say "Kill your boss....kill your boss" Or, Kill yourself". Of course, you could have it the other way to say positive things that would help you out Psychologically .
Life is not for the lazy.
Brainwashing people by telling them to get more sleep?
Are the words random, tailored to the user, or to the topic at hand? If the last, do I need special glasses for reading the newspaper and for reading a book?
Also, wouldn't 1/80th of a second make more sense?
You should use AdiumX on your Mac.
"...like someone's name, or a word like keys or medicine"
But what if grandpa forgets to put on his glasses?
Humorous hack: have it flash an image of a penis. If Fight Club has taught us anything (other then how to make soap), it has certainly taught us the benefits of subliminal images.
I really hope they perfect this technology for when my time comes..., hopefully 40-50 years from now... LOL My parents could use this today.
Daniel Connor
Sorry, but someone had to say this
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How long until somone "hacks" them to just have the glasses display something continuously, or change what is displays? Imagine the both Good and bad possibilities of this. A dictionary or book right before your eyes, but, Imagine the cheating implications of thiis. what if someone sets the glasses to display a "cheat sheet" during a test?
Perhaps you'll come up to my place for drinks *blink* hot sex *blink*...
and like everything made by MicroOptical they're "not on the market yet". Vapour.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"I swear, someone must've hacked my glasses and told my memory to refer to all uniformed people as 'doughnut-eating wankers'! It isn't my fault, I swear!!"
"In related news, two-thirds of Congress refused to comment on allegations of wearing memeyes that contained pro-corporate propaganda. Investigators have been hampered by the sheer amount of memspam associated with a search of memories stored on the glasses."
"..and with the introduction of memory-display eyewear in the late zeroes, intra-party political diversity essentially disappeared as aberrant views were replaced with Republicant, Democrat, or Green Party-mandated memory files. This in turn led to the long-forseen first digital war, and devastating numerous Pacific Rim economies such as.."
In other news, beer glasses have been found to reduce your memory retention by more than 50%...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
"Dammit, we're out of toilet paper.."
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"yeeoowwwww!!!"
Subliminal porn.. It's gotta happen sooner or later..
Hey, I'm not actually typing this, am I? Wait.. The cursor is moving to the submit button! Nooo, sto
This statement is false.
I realize that the point of this is memory enhancement not mobile computing, but I would prefer the information to just be left on screen long enough for me to read it. Use color coding or something so you can ignore what is on screen unless it is the topic you are presently concerned with.
Drat, i cant find a good link about about these glasses, i saw them before at skool and they help you remember what people said!
This seems like the subliminal messages that they used to stick into movies. I wouldn't be suprised if companies start trying to stick their advertising in them.
Steve Mann has been doing this for years.
Er, well, no.
:)
"Flash Subliminal Programming", as you call it, isn't a completely failed research area - assuming you're talking about subliminal priming. Priming is the term used to refer to an experience or procedure that brings a particular concept to mind (see Kunda, 1999, Social Cognition).
There have been many studies which demonstrate the effects of subliminal priming - in a particularly nice one, subjects were shown either 0, 20, or 80% "hostile" prime words - each for 50 ms - followed by a line of Xs to mask the prime. A control group identified less than 1% of the words. Yet, when asked to rate the behavior of a character in a story, people who saw more Hostile Primes rated the actions as more hostile or aggressive (Bargh and Pietromonaco, 1982).
Mere Exposure experiments have been done (Bornstein and D'Agostino) with durations as little as 5 ms. Mere exposure is another interesting phenom - that familiarity breeds liking (see Bornstein 1989 or Zajonc 1968 for reviews).
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Could you use these while taking a test - claiming that they don't so much give you the answer like a cheat sheet, rather, subliminal cues that help your recall like a mnemonic device might? Yeah, right. ;-)
Just wait until these hit the non-medical market. Then imagine advertising - browsing the web on portable devices for example.
;)
I think you can see where this will go.
At least the pop-ups will only last 180th of a second
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This is not new it was how I was trained to read whole words and read and it's been around for ages. Wearing a pair of "special" glases is new however. Cool too.
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Yea I can't spell. So what is your point?
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How longe before these become manditory for those under a certain income level, flashing "OBEY, CONSUME, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT"? Maybe Carpenter was a bit prophetic.
This'll save Leonard Shelby hundreds on tattoos. And Polaroid film.
Option-Shift-K.
Could this be learned for generalized learning? Could I load "Mathematical Ecology I" into the device controlling the glasses and learn something from it? Perhaps equations? Probably not learn, but memorize, drill?
Basing off of what little I know about the way human being learn, I can't imagine these could be used for learning of a subject not already known, but I bet they could be used for review or memorization. Neato.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
Personally I'd find it great if they could add voice recognition to it. One of my biggest weaknesses is remembering new names, especially when I'm introduced to a whole bunch of people one after the other. (I remember a job interview where I was taken on a tour of the building, and met around 10 people in 15 minutes. Then near the end of the tour, one of those people joined us for the rest of the interview, and I was trying desperately to remember which one he was :) ). Being able to have it dynamically associate people's faces with names and display a prompt would be a huge assist.
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"How can someone with glasses that thick be so stupid?"
I'm suprised everyone's quoted or attempted to relate other movies to this topic besides the movie that directly resembles this topic.
It looks like the text flashed onto the eye quickly is used as a primer to get you thinking about a certain thing and thus a memory aid.
From a Psych 101 example:
Whats a popular laundry detergent? Answer after you have read this list:
- Moon
- Ocean
- Water
- Ebb
- Beach
If you answered Tide detergent, congradulations, you may have been "primed" into answering that. Admitedly Tide has a good market share in the laundry detergent but the priming effect can be demonstrated with other non-local examples. (I belive this works best if you live in Canada)
I was under the impression that flashing text quickly so that your eye doesn't notice it was just another form of subliminal messaging...
I was also under the impression that these types of subliminal messages don't work...
So can anyone sort this out? I must be confused about something.
More than that, if TV's or some permutation of a TV in the future can do this, whats to stop companies from flashing "BUY COKE" every 180th frame.
If only everyone would take a lesson from the military and wear RFID badges, this would be _really_ useful.
They're not really "memory glasses" so much as they are "subliminal message" glasses. That is to say, they pop you a little message that after awhile you eventually log down automatically from your subconscious. This is much the same as ads for soft-drinks etc that were placed in theatres between frames before it became illegal (except in this case it would be opt-in and therefore presumably legal).
My main concern would be whether or not these things might display messages other than the ones intended? What happens if due to certain investors it say "Thirsty? Coke" or something similar? And since the glasses don't have a preset film, how would you know?
So thats the geek people's secret!!!!
In the movie, nobody got to wear the glasses. The signal was broadcast to all.
The glasses were designed by the resistance to avoid being told to BUY, SLEEP, etc.
That said, you're right on the money with the concept.
What a great story, and movie.
I guess it was from a short story named "Three O'Clock in the Morning" or something (this is from memory. Damn I wish I had those glasses)
My mom says I'm cool.
Killer app: once RFID tags are in garments in stores, this could indicate all the ones that would fit you. Shoppers at sales would love this.
not if you are species 8472.
How is this any better than writing a person's name and phone number on your hand? But seriously what are the practical benifits? It's not really helpful in social situations since you would need to program it to display ALL the names of people whose name you forget ALL the time.
Glasses such as these are only useful if they display the information you need WHEN you need it. Add speech and facial recognition to the system and then you'll have a truely useful product.
As usual journalists got it all wrong ! I actually WAS at ISWC'03 last week and that's not exactly what the presenter (Rich DeVaul) was saying. Hell the glasses improve your memory even if it's not flashing the right name of the person in the test group !
Journalists should READ the actual paper and make sure they UNDERSTAND the presentation before spinning a story the way they want using a few key words !
Sorry, but I don't think this will improve memory. Subliminal clues may help you when you are wearing the glasses, but I bet that when you don't wear them, you won't be able to remember at all, because you will have learned to rely on them, rather than your memory. They don't assist memory, they replace it.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
Perhaps it is just me, but these seem as though they would be an obvious target for next generation marketing campaigns.
As per the article, they are triggered into action via RF. I am in Tokyo right now and the sheer magnitude of visual input from everything from neon to big screen televisions to giant posters is almost paralyzing at times. I am afraid to even contemplate how this annoyance would be compounded thru the use (and surely abuse) of this type of technology by the marketing drones of the world.
And then, there is always the conspiracy theorist angle. What if subversive powers (governmental or otherwise) tapped into this type of technology to recruit and/or spread propaganda. It would completely redefine everything from armed forces and/or terrorist recruitment all the way up to presidential elections.
Even worse, with the subliminal nature of this tech, you might not even realize at first why purchasing a copy of M$ Office 2003 seems like such a great idea all of a sudden, why you are suddenly craving some KFC only minutes after eating, or why you have completely changed your opinion of Dubya...
Scary shit if you ask me...
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Too bad there is no videos of the glasses:
It's too fast for the eyes to notice, but not the brain.
So if it's too fast for the eye to notice, how is the brain supposed to get your message?
This would be a great way for me to study... just put a few chapters of a textbook into the smart glasses and I don't even realize I'm learning!
I would settle with remembering 50%.
Back in April, Scientific American Frontiers had part of an episode (video here, transcript here) that talked about this same thing - including face recognition, with a blip of 1/3 of a video frame... I forget whether video frames are 24 or 30 frames per second, but if it's 30, than it would be consistent with the article above.
i want the fsck'ing glasses
don't say i didn't warn you.
even worse than "kill your boss", what about a hacker sending you these terrible messages:
"Microsoft is good"
"Bill is your friend and he loves you (really)"
"Linux is no longer cool"
"You need Office 2003 NOW"
"All your glasses are belong to us"
*monotone* Brainwashing... Thats... rediculous.... Now if you dont mind i have to go donate my life savings to the people that invented the memory glasses and fight to make them the overloards of earth....... */monotone*
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
Great, but where did I put them last...?
If I see a half-naked woman will the glasses say "sex"? I mean... because... that already happens.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you may be a bit of a racist.
That was said to cause convulsions in kids, lots of flashing, colors. Probably primitive to these glasses but there would need ot be a visual(or brain reaction) test to see who can use these. Those prone to seizures might have a problem.
I eat my grapes at room temperature, cuz the cold ones hurt my teeth
Since wearable computing and its surrounding technology is almost definately going to mature much faster than something as far off as optical implants that can do the same trick without glasses, I wonder if people will stop using lasers and contacts to fix their eyes because they will want to wear glasses as a utility. In fact people with perfect vision might even start wearing glasses.
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Will someone tell me how the hell people come up with stupid, meaningless figures like "50%", when applied to something as complex as human memory?
It's not like we have some sort of empty/full meter. Human memory is intricately structured, unreliable, amazing, and far beyond the ability of a SINGLE NUMBER to describe!
Lies, damn lies, and SLASHDOT ARTICLES!
When Opti-grab came out, I thought it was the greatest thing ever, and I bought a pair. And this is the result. (Mr. Reiner removes his pair of dark glasses to reveal...) This little handle is like a magnet, your eyes are constantly drawn to it and you end up cock-eyed. Now as a director I am constantly using my eyes and this Opti-grab device has caused irreparable harm to my career. Let me show you a clip from my latest film where my faulty depth perception kept me from yelling cut at the proper time. (scene of a little red sportscar speeding off a cliff. Reiner yells "Cut!" just after the car goes over the edge) If I had yelled cut on time, those actors would be alive today. That's why I am spearheading the ten million dollar class action suit against Mr. Johnson and his irresponsible selling of a product he didn't even test on prisoners. Thank you.
"The world is a construct of forceful imagination. Those who don't know walk around in the reailties of those who do"
how this can be saled in any place with possibility tue sue somebody for any rubbish and win. I mean, epileptics are likely to...highly dislike using this. There will be warnings, sure...but what about people that never knew they can have attack of epi so easily? OTOH if the inventors wil have good lawyers they can convince the judge that it is good because it "detects" illnes ;P
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Hmmmrf... where did I put my glasses...
Make you remember more, or only make you LOOK like you remember more? Here's a short commentary about the history of glasses which makes the point that you, at least, can look more intelligent if you wear them. Or, see this little study link. So why allow your brain to be flashed with subliminal messages when you can put on an old pair of wire-rims and just look like you know more already? : )
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If the OS for the glasses comes from Redmond it will flash "Save Money With Windows Server 2003" just like ./ banner adds.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
I just want to say that I really value your contribution to slashdot. You guys at the GNAA really give a voice to trolls and I hope you keep doing what you're doing for a long time.
lies, all lies
By whizzing so many things past you a second they do the remebering for you by word association or giving the answer. What would happen when you take them off? No words to associate with when trying to remember something so "help improve memory" is a bit false. It's doing the helping but I don't see how it's doing any improving.
Does anybody have any information on affordable wearable computers (with the glasses and all) that you don't need a computer engineering degree to put together?
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Finally a counter to the effects of beer goggles!
REJOICE, fellow drunkards!
Quoth the author:
These "memory glasses" were also discussed at the recent International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
Lessee here . . . Symposium, literally translated from Greek, means drinking party. The Platonic dialogue of the same name was, in fact, a drinking party.
Glasses that flash messages in someone's eyes immediately following a drinking party . . . sounds like the makings of a barf-o-rama to me.
AFAIK, recent research would indicate that to use these for "subliminal" suggestion, a better approach than to quickly flash a message in one lens, would be to quickly flash a different (useful) one in each lens.
An auditory form technique is commonly used with audible suggestions, especially in hypnosis. The notion is that if something is said with equivalent volume and tonality in each ear, you will focus on one or the other, but still "register" the other, without evaluating it--your conscious/critical faculty being tied up processing the other audio channel.
Unfortunately, hard proof of the effectiveness of either seems to be lacking.
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Imagine some goatse slashdot troll were to hack your glasses. That'd ruin your day, wouldn't it???
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For years, I've wanted tooltips on reality. You know, move the mouse over a button on the desktop, and a little yellow note will appear, telling you what happens when you press the button. That would be awesome as augmented reality. Fixing the engine of your car, and uncertain what that part does? Look at it for a few seconds, and an explanation will pop up. Trying to remember the name of an uncle you haven't seen in 15 years? Tooltip glasses to the rescue! :-)
What's next - scrollbars on reality? Now THAT would be useful
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just knowing how the fauxking deceptive georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi execrable 'operates', leaves won wanting to know/remember less, about the cesspool of felonious greed/fear/ego based behaviours that we're being subjected to, buy yOUR s0-culled "leaders/heros".
lookout bullow.
you don't need any more corepirate nazi opticull illusions to smell which way the winds of change are bullowing?
Combine it with speech recognition software and have it supply Fnords everytime you see the name of the manufacturer's rivals, least favourite political party, etc. If you can't see the Fnord, the fnord can't eat you. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What I want is some sort of visor that could PICK OUT subliminal messages and alert you to them. Now I'd buy that for a dollar.
was shown later to be completly bogus. You would think that if there was anything *not* bogus into altering a person mood/buying habits by flashing subliminal image, then I can't speak for the US but as you pointed out EU consumer protection or EU governement would since long have taken a step against it. Especially that forcefully altering the mood/reaction of someone else is seen as a VERY BAD thing (tm) and is taboo/feared in many country (think of voodo and other black magic :)... ). People would as soon burn down the social siege of a firm using that rather than have a law against it....
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> In other news, beer glasses have been found to
> reduce your memory retention by more than 50%...
Beer glasses have also been found to reduce your water retention by more than 50%.....
If they're going to be serving bear at ballgames and football games, they *really* need more bathrooms.
Is there any software that does this for the PC? Flash the screen all day while you work.
> whats to stop companies from flashing "BUY COKE"
> every 180th frame.
So *that* explains why GWB got into coke. All along I thought he was being hypocritical on his "war on drugs. Now we know he was just duped by adware glasses.
I was under the impression that flashing text quickly so that your eye doesn't notice it was just another form of subliminal messaging...
I was also under the impression that these types of subliminal messages don't work...
So can anyone sort this out? I must be confused about something.
Sure. What we have here in the glasses is exactly as you stated -- a prime. The idea behind priming is that if you flash a semantically related word right before certain kinds of decisions, the semantic links are strengthened, or "primed" so you are slightly more likely and slightly quicker to respond with a particular response.
If I recall correctly, 180 ms is not fast enough to be undetectable. It is, however, fast enough so that your eye won't be able to saccade over to it before it disappears. (A saccade takes approximately 200ms) This means that for all intents and purposes, you probably won't be fully aware of what it says, though you might be aware that something was flashed, if you were paying attention.
So the idea (as I understand it) is that if the glasses flash a person's name very briefly, you'll be more likely to respond with that name if you are put in a situation where you have to recall it, as the links to it have been strengthened.
As for your question about subliminal messages, I think what you're referring to is the infamous idea that if you flicker pictures of Coca Cola between the frames of a movie, people are more likely to go buy a coke. Well, it's true that this kind of strategy doesn't work -- there's a huge difference between having Coke semantically primed and carrying out the complex behavior of buying a coke (you have the time delay, first of all, which diminishes the activation, the planning required to buy a coke, etc...)
The priming effect is real, but very small, usually only detectable in terms of milliseconds or trends. All in all, recall is the type of task that priming can help in, so this may be very useful. But displaying "Buy Coke" or "kill your boss" really isn't going to do anything at all.
Why does this announcement sound like an advertisement? Coming out of MIT, you'd think it would sound like research in need of being peer-reviewed.
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
I need this invention to help me remember people. But what I really want is Google built into the glasses so I can quickly search/see info related to the stuff around me. I would set the glasses to constantly flash search-hit fragments related to whatever object or words I was seeing at the time. I can even imagine the Googly-Glasses logo for the service.
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Yes, but will these uber-specs help TIM with his sexylaid?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I remember as a kid wanting them, as did all the neighbor kids. I knew my parents wouldn't buy them so I never asked. I latter heard they were a hoax of some kind, but not what. (Considering nobody showed them off to me, they must have been. If they worked it would have been braging rights to show them off)
So can anyone enlighten those of us with deprived childhoods who never got them what they are?
The overall efect of this overstimulation is evident in divorce and suicide rates. If you have not noticed, both of those rates are at historic highs. It's sort of like bodybuilders and steroids, it's never existed before because it's not natural. You are profoundly agitated on a daily basis and it's having a very negative effect on society.
The non free version of these glasses would personalize the message. With RFID's advertisers would know exactly who you are. I can imagine them acting like sunglasses in places like the mall because 90 shops at once will want your 1/180 of a second blip-vert. We'd be better off if this would make people's head explode.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
It's called subliminal advertising and the good folks on Madison avenue and elswhere have been putting images like that in your face for more than 60 years. Try laid by the best as a very old example. Images like that fill cartoony comercial art and more hideous images can be hidden in photographs. Computers have been very helpful at putting pornography right in your face many times a day.
The more advertising you are exposed to the worse off you are. It is agitating and more anoying than you think it is.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
That's an interesting mod idea. What I don't get is how the me information gets programmed into the CPU in a really up useful fashion. I get the mod RFID idea, but if I'm trying to me remember say a grocery list, by the time I type it in up I may as well just bring the list on paper.
Anyone know how possible it would be to try the same things with computer monitors? We could insert a custom frame every second to pull off the same trick with a computer monitor. Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this, or if it would have the same effect?
How about "googgles"?
Ummm... so will the next big news be that sticky notes "improve memory"?
Providing someone with an automatic reminder system (even if this one is subliminal, or less obvious to the person you're talking to than looking at an index card, etc) doesn't really increase your ability to remember, so much as provide a crib sheet for life. If that "improves memory" then so does taking a timeline into my history final.
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And I was going to get these new memory glasses, but I forgot.
i'm one of the authors on the paper, and you should check out the section on "miscues" for why this doesn't work.
subliminal cueing works like this: let's say you teach somebody some name-and-face pairs -- "anne" and "becky". then you show them anne's face and subliminally cue with "anne", and you can improve the person's likelihood of remembering that name.
but let's say you "miscue" -- you show them anne's face but subliminally cue with the name "becky". they are *not* likelier to then type "becky" -- but they *are* likelier to correctly type "anne"! this is the really weird and interesting part of our findings.
we hypothesize that there is some of what psychologists call "spreading activation" taking place: the miscue helps you remember other things you learned in the context of the experiment, but doesn't interfere with the actual production of the correct answer.
anyway, this is why subliminal advertising doesn't work. if you see the word "coke" but what you want is "lemonade", maybe you are likelier to think about getting a drink, but you'll likely get yourself a lemonade rather than a coke.
we have some preliminary data showing that *overt* cues don't work that way. if we show the name "becky" with anne's face in a non-subliminal way, then subjects appear to type "becky" a lot of the time. this is probably why overt advertising actually does work, too.
Must be a subliminal. I sure as hell wasn't thinking this in 1994... Of course, I wasn't running Jaguar on it in 1994.
T-Rays or terahertz RF emissions would permit a viewer to see through clothes, curtains, and other thin, non metalic materials.
Some used to consider using "computer aid" was cheating.... calculators in math class.
And then, there is always the conspiracy theorist angle. What if subversive powers (governmental or otherwise) tapped into this type of technology to recruit and/or spread propaganda. It would completely redefine everything from armed forces and/or terrorist recruitment all the way up to presidential elections. :)
Or they could force the people to wear magic green glasses 24h a day.
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fuel the 30fps, 60fps, 120fps argument?
How can people see this? Isn't it too close too focus on?
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Sounds like old news . . .
Remember Max Headroom's BlipVerts?
Lisa: But you have recruiting ads on TV. Why do you need subliminal messages?
Smash: It's a three-pronged attack. Subliminal, liminal, and superliminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
Smash: I'll show you.
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Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I'm in.
This reminds me of a story about Einstein. Einstein had to look up something in the phone book. He was then asked why someone so smart would need a phone book. Einstein replied if he knew where to look up the information then why would he need to remember it.
I'm a programmer for Yum! Brands, the company who owns KFC. I'll be sure to let you know how big of a raise I get after I suggest this to my boss! :)
You could market these in High Times and make a fortune!
Later,
Phil
"It's too fast for the eyes to notice, but not the brain."
;-P
Wow.. its like having a harddrive platters that spin to fast for the reading header but still be able to read the data. Amazing!
Response: "would you like the meal?"
Repeated offenses however (as is very possible here) would result in a default action of "Liquidate ALL", fun fun fun!
Or memory replacement? What part of the brain is required for understanding how to replace batteries in electronic devices 'cause that's all we'll need in a few hundred years.
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How do these glasses know what to display and when?
It seems like a Catch-22.
...I'd like an "Undo" on reality, too.
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Conspiracy? Never.
The core is your friend.
Trust the core.
Wouldn't this work a lot better if they
just kept the words on display long enough
so that you could READ them?
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
If you make sunglasses out of them it will let you see the aliens.
Thank-you.
I would like to be able to have a set of things I need to remember, even an image or something, flash on my screen so that I don't notice it but that I am using my "stare" time for not only work but also other things like school. Any programs for controlling this?? I am on an apple powerbook. Someone want to make it and sell it for a few bucks?