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Remote Control for Humans?
FatMacDaddy writes "The SFGate is reporting on a remote control for manipulating humans through electrical stimulation of the inner ear nerves.The author of this article describes his experience with having a "remote control for humans" device used on him. The developers hope to use this with video games and other entertainment, but it might also be used as a weapon to disable people. An interesting read with perhaps some disturbing implications. Better get a second layer on those tinfoil hats!"
I guess it could be used as a weapon... if you could convince everyone to wear the required head-gear all the time...
they're called breasts.
Obligatory Family Guy quote follows:
Stewie: Good day, shopkeep.
Chris: Good day shopkeep, I require a hand-operated buzzsaw capable of cutting through a human sternum.
Shopkeep: What?
Chris: It's for a school project, I'm some sort of student sent here for... oh blast what the devil do they study? uh... Latin class.
Shopkeep: Uhh, sorry kid, I can't sell power tools to minors.
Chris: Now look here you gore-bellied codpiece. Allow me to purchase the provisions I demand or I'll form your blue collar into a red one and-
Who the deuce are you? No I don't have any spare change. Where the hell would I keep it? In my diaper? Get out of here you hobo. Oh bloody hell, is this thing still on?
"An interesting read with perhaps some disturbing implications." I'll say - what if you lose it?
I hate the one hundred and twenty character limit for signatures with an all-enveloping, all-destroying, incredible pass
In the hands of an evil genius ... image a nation state of automatons, wait a minute ...
Wives had had this for their husbands for years now.
Back in my day we used to use remote controles on cars.
That episode of Star Trek where those aliens steal Spock's brain. Scotty rigs up a remote control for Spock's body and they all beam down to the planet to search for it. Just goes to show you that all important modern tech was first shown on Star Trek.
Imagine the implications of this with the adult entertainment industry!
Now that's entertainment!
Does it have a volume control? Can you calobrate it to my girlfriend? How soon can you get it to me? and here's all my money!
serenity now!
"Better get a second layer on those tinfoil hats!"
Or just don't put on the headgear that controls you.
Either way, I'm not going to work at any job that requires me to wear this remote control, unless it's wireless. Wearing headgear all day with a wire attached would probably give me a sore neck by causing restricted head movements.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I, for one, welcome our new inner-ear remote-control overlords.
A mute button for the folks would have been handy when I was a teenager...I'd be a much better guitar player today...
I mean just wait till the BSDM community gets hold of this!
Sony had something similar, but not as capable, as this a year or so back. And it's still vaporware, unless "They're working out bugs."
Forget the second tinfoil layer, people. Be content in the fact that until you willingly strap a device to your head, you're safe.
Ignore the fact that I'm drunk right now, but I will *NEVER* put one of these things on my head. I'll stick with "subliminal messages thru sneaky frames included in films.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Daaaamn, and here I thought I was simply drunk and listening to headphones...
You mean that's NOT Corrosion of Conformity in my head?!
Please take the time to consider these and other reasons to treat alluminum foil as a reasonable, effective form of alternative preventitive medicine for everyone's mental well-being.
-apt
"medieval students were no less manic-depressive, riot-prone, or financially indignant than their modern counterparts"
You just need to fashon a tinfoil had that has those very attractive ear flaps.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Research done at MIT shows that tinfoil hats actually amplify government mind control beams. Because they are not fully enclosed, they actually end up acting as a sort of antenna. Yes, that's right: Wearing a tinfoil hat is exactly what the shadow government wants you to do!
You realize all this does is mess with your balance by stimulating the nerves for your inner ear, Right? This isn't mind control. I don't think you'd get much from an interrogation with something like "Tell us what we want to know or we'll make you lean to one side"
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
Obligatory (mutilated) Futurama:
Leela: "Didn't you have remote controls in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Well sure, but not for humans! Only for tv and radio...and stereos...and DVD Players. And for air conditioning, blinds, and toy cars, and Robosapiens, and banana label machines, and Nintendo. But not for humans! No sirree."
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Who's laughing now? [Tick... tick... tick...]
You must think in Russian.
Just as long as no-one uses this technology to make me do something gross, like eat a tarantula (a la Red Dwarf...)
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.