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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!"

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  1. Sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess it could be used as a weapon... if you could convince everyone to wear the required head-gear all the time...

    1. Re:Sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why don't you wear it voluntarily? It lets us protect you against terrorists. You're not a terrorist, are you?

    2. Re:Sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Remote Control of Humans and other animals is possible without any implants VIA ELF radiation and other less noticeable means.

      Grrrr. Those darn Elves!

    3. Re:Sure... by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 3, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, YOU control government officials!

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  2. women have had this for years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're called breasts.

    1. Re:women have had this for years. by HermanAB · · Score: 5, Funny

      A remote control to control breasts? That is called a diamond, but be warned, it seems to wear out over time, it is not forever...

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    2. Re:women have had this for years. by zxnos · · Score: 5, Funny

      you need to recharge the batteries in the remote with additional diamonds, birthstones, gold, silver, china, etc... just like any other rechargeable battery, the charge is shorter each time...

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    3. Re:women have had this for years. by LiquidMind · · Score: 5, Funny

      us guys have one too!

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    4. Re:women have had this for years. by bclark · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anyone else scared to click that link?

  3. 404...conspiracy theories begin! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  4. Disturbing implications indeed... by Fermatprime · · Score: 5, Funny

    "An interesting read with perhaps some disturbing implications." I'll say - what if you lose it?

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  5. Nothing New by lenmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wives had had this for their husbands for years now.

  6. my day by d1a1v1e · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in my day we used to use remote controles on cars.

  7. This reminds me of... by jgartin · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  8. My word... by mozingod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine the implications of this with the adult entertainment industry!

    Now that's entertainment!

  9. question by NoGuffCheck · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  10. Head movements by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  11. Obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new inner-ear remote-control overlords.

  12. That would have been handy... by Funakoshi · · Score: 3, Funny

    A mute button for the folks would have been handy when I was a teenager...I'd be a much better guitar player today...

  13. VAPOR-FUQIN-WARE by Khyber · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  14. in defense of the foil by apt_user · · Score: 5, Funny
    Please, I beg you all, stop making sarcastic remarks about the healthful benefits of alluminum foil headwear. Such devices are proven to be effective protection against a variety of stressors - both theoretical and non - which could cause irreversible damage to our inner cortexes, including but not limited to: electrostatic radiation, photonic radiation (both below and above the visible spectrum), direct sunlight, sonic intonations, unvoiced alveolar fricatives, exosolar radiation, sublunar electrostaticity, supraterrestrial automotive frustration, undefined free radicals, affective spherical earth rhetoric, ectoplasmic goo, artificial nonterrestrial mental affectae, habeus corpus, quantum relativity, venetian sausage, psychological longitudinal surveys, cathode ray tube emissions (both dynamic and static), retrograde motion, reversed cognitive flotation, vulcan mind melds, social mobility, dyslexic antithetical mythology, imablance of the four humors, dentistry, meeting the love of your life, recieving a darwin award, overseasonned exotic foods, strongbad's email, end-user liscence aggreements, and ketchup.

    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

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  15. Not a second layer by fireman+sam · · Score: 3, Funny

    You just need to fashon a tinfoil had that has those very attractive ear flaps.

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  16. Tinfoil hats are mind-control antennas! by Temporal · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!