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!"

Comments

women have had this for years.

[Anonymous Coward]

they're called breasts.

Re:women have had this for years.

[HermanAB]

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...

Re:women have had this for years.

[zxnos]

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...

Re:women have had this for years.

[LiquidMind]

us guys have one too!

Re:women have had this for years.

[bclark]

Anyone else scared to click that link?

Old news

[krautcanman]

This is old news from a few months back: http://www.forbes.com/business/innovators/2005/08/ 04/technology-remote-control-humans_cx_lh_0804remo tehuman.html

404...conspiracy theories begin!

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Disturbing implications indeed...

[Fermatprime]

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

Nothing New

[lenmaster]

Wives had had this for their husbands for years now.

my day

[d1a1v1e]

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

Re:Sure...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

in defense of the foil

[apt_user]

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

"medieval students were no less manic-depressive, riot-prone, or financially indignant than their modern counterparts"