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High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory

Posted by timothy on from the unless-you-forget-where-they-are dept.

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.

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  1. Subliminal Messages? by Webtommy88 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.