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Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand
An anonymous reader writes "A device created by the University of Tokyo and Sony Laboratories called PossessedHand allows researchers to control a subject's hand via electrical stimulation. While currently being used to teach students to play the koto, a Japanese traditional stringed instruments, just imagine the possibilities! Twilight Zone anyone?"
Sounds cool and all, but we're talking about Sony here. Any 12 year old with a tutorial on sql injection could just walk in and hijack my hand.
The proof I need to get out of prison...
Sony DRM is getting out of hand.
The joke here is way too obvious. I'll pass.
Really. I didn't intend to slap you. I don't know what's going on, what with Xbox reading what my hands are doing and Sony telling my hands what to do.
Gently reply
.... Kung Fu.
First they trojan my PC with XCP, now they want to hack my hand!
Free Martian Whores!
It could be worse, at first I thought they wanted to hack it off.
Wouldn't it be easier to just ASK someone to pass the salt???
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Goodbye Viagra!
Nate
Dear Sony: I already control my hands with the mighty power of thought.
I want to control computers with that power now.
technology can only be applied toward advancing biomedical sciences
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in the greater interest of the public good and indeed that of humankind in general
its just too bad the corporation thats developed it regards its customers as bumbling tits,
their private information as no more than a step stone toward profit,
and their technology as some type of (literal as well) black box from which only cash should flow into and
conformity exercised in its presence
LulzSec and anonymous have given me a rather soured opinion of the global standard that is sony.
but i think they could start turning it around slowly if they started showing more interest in...humanity?
release the hand-thing as open source or under a floss license of their choosing...that would be neat.
otherwise its like watching OCP or the Tyrell corporation at this point
Good people go to bed earlier.
DRM where you slap yourself ....
Now us guys have an EXCUSE if somebody catches us in the bathroom (or *ahem* elsewhere) spankin' the monkey.
"What!? No! Somebody hacked my hand, I swear!"
Playstation plays YOU.
They're always touching things!
Okay, all jokes aside, the stated use of this tech is friggin' awesome! Learning to play an instrument with an instructor that can literally position your hand for you sounds like a pretty novel experience. You could use it to help teach all kinds of musical instruments. Scale it up and you could do some pretty nifty stuff, too. I bet it'd be useful for certain types of physical therapy. You could use it for a force-feedback gaming. With some accelerometers and orientation sensors you could probably use a scaled-up version to allow paraplegics to walk again (brief distances over very flat surfaces, sure, but it'd be -something-).
Okay, having read the article now, I see they already are working on the physical therapy angle. Now we just need to see an Evil Dead game that makes use of this tech...
End of lesson. You may press the button.
In training mode, the game controls your hands, which operate the controller.
make imaginary.friends COUNT=100 VISIBLE=false
Just think of the possible [masturbation] uses.
The key question is can they also disable feeling, because if so theyv'e just put fleshlight out of business and I need to buy shares in Sony.
I suspect there will be a lot of interest from young men who want to improve playing with their 'instrument'.
blah blah blah on how this could help humanity and .01% of the world's population with a disability or in need of a prosthetic.
Tamaki is confident that people will get used to the idea once they see how useful it can be: "We believe convenient technology will overcome a feeling of fear."
Justifiable fear. What the fuck is with the Japanese penchant for controlling living things remotely? If the damn \. search was half useful you would find cockroaches and human balance having been controlled remotely. Is there no part of any of these researcher's minds that asks "What will this be used for?" or some sense of self-preservation that thinks, "Hey maybe I might end up being controlled!"
These are without a doubt the most disturbing types of experiments. When the machines take over it will not be via a war a la Skynet. Instead, mankind will simply wake up no longer able to physically do anything but minister to the machines' needs. Billions of minds trapped in bodies no longer under their control. Not assimilated, simply co-opted until no longer needed. No revolution would be possible.
-skynet command- You will now take your life. -\skynet command-
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
I wonder if this would be able to help musicians with focal dystonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_dystonia)
Perhaps someone could build something that would enable a PS3 and Xbox 360 to communicate using the players hands
Sony is just looking for a way to install a DRM rootkit on your nervous system.
Remember that article from a week ago about being able to turn memories on and off in rats with electrical signals? Now the next time you hear/view copyrighted media you'll immediately forget what you saw if you stop paying subscription fees for those memories.
I'd rather be paralyzed than put my hand's well being into Sony's, umm, hands.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
All the examples you give are well and good, but since we're not talking about a company or research lab I'd put any trust in, my thoughts go more to the question how this could be abused to gain control over my hands.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Really?
I don't think you have thought that through.
I'm quite protective of my body, the mere idea that someone else might be controlling part of it freaks me out to no end. I'm probably at the extreme end of the spectrum here, but I could not see me living, knowing that my existence depends on a machine that is not under my control. Fortunately I only had to go get an operation once, and it took them quite a lot of sedatives to calm me to the point where they could knock me out.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Recall the movie Shooter http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/ ?
No more messy machines needed to set up a "suicide".
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
That's just the first thing that comes to mind. I know, not the best movie, but they do try to touch on some interesting ideas. I could definitely see Sony being far more evil than Dexter, too.
Cyber bullies: 'why are You hitting yourself!?'
I know that this technology will end up being used by bullies.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
They waited until Lulzsec was disbanding, they didn't want them to be able to control peoples hands all over the world.
1) Cut off Sony rooted hand.
2) Replace with chainsaw.
3) ????
4) Kill demons.
Sony's hidden agenda here is to control the hand to get out the wallet and buy more Sony Crap.
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
You do realise how much of your natural body is not under your control already?
Move the minute hand forward on the Borgday clock.
Makes me wonder if such a technology could actually make one commit suicide.
It seems implicit here that the subjects actually want to know how to play music; would it work against one's will or is the "hypnosis limitation" applicable?
I'll just leave this here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQwZroEuec
Aside of my vegetative system which I have of course very little control over, I couldn't really point at something that is controlled by some external force. Please elaborate.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If a computer controls my hand....
is it masturbation, or sex with a cyborg?
I wonder if this could be coupled with the 'thinking cap' technology that allows you to control your computer with your thoughts. Control your hand with your mind, even if the nerves in between have been severed. Would obviously work best before atrophy set in.
Go ahead and call me unreliable; reliable is just a synonym for predictable.
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!
Obligatory comic strip
With technology like this, who needs a girlfriend?
Paralyzed people who's muscles can be controlled to a functional state, would be nice.
Perhaps a suit that would enable people to walk. Dunno.
Yeah, its too bad all the 7th graders here decided to trash Sony rather than see the value of this for all the paralyzed people in the world. Even worse are the fully functioning people who insist that if it came to pass that they were paralyzed they would remain so rather than strap on a device that allows them to once again control their own limbs. Such big talk from someone who has never rolled a day in a wheelchair.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Jiu Jitsu?
I'm gonna learn Jiu Jitsu?
You sir, are an idiot.
Plus you are a liar. After a few months paralyzed in a bed with someone else having to feed you and wipe your ass everyday you would jump at the first doctor that offered a small device to allow you to walk once again.
Go ahead and convince us that you'd lie there for years till you died just to "protect your body".
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
"Phone for help? What good is a phone-call, Mr. Anderson, if you are unable to put down the controller?"
Now we have the technology to perform a stranger without blood loss to the extremities.
Cool, i will be able learn to play guitar by having my fingers electronically pluck the strings for days and after that i can pick up a guitar and play like Jimi Hendrix!! NOT!!
the problem with motion controls, especially for swords related movements, is there's no feedback when you swing and encounter and object (like a shield)
while it had insidious applications as well, this tech could be used as a force feedback mechanism in order to stop your arm mid-swing as you encounter resistance in-game
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138510/ Makes me think this is not such a good idea. Especially with Sony doing it...
It wasn't me, it was my hand.
I wonder if it could teach the girls new tricks. :)
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
The future of phone sex.
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You probably need a special proprietary Sony hand, because Sony products seem to have exceptional capabilities for getting hacked. I would think our own genetics would make for some tougher hacking than anything Sony puts out or uses, which would obviously call for a third-party hand.
I could see this used:
- to help people move whose nerves are damaged. Combine that with mind readers (ex. Emotiv, NeuroSky) and we're part way there. We'd also need something to send feedback feeling from the severed area to the brain.
- to help prevent atrophy in people in coma by animating them. (Hmm... could it be used to animate the dead...?)
- to teach people handy skills (which is what the article suggests), remotely even.
- as material in sci-fi movies to remote control characters, either to commit heinous crimes or remote control the sub-standard hero into moving like an expert.
Any other uses?
...fingerprints on the murder weapon are no longer considered strong evidence.
Really? All the tops posts are jokes about Sony?
Not a pip about the tech involved.
LOL Vigilante copyright nazi justice, force enthusiasts/hackers to strangle themselves upon opening the PS4. Screw algorithms, easily broken, but forced strangulation? CODE AROUND THAT BITCH! It'll be like that little f**kin hand from Evil Dead 2 LOL
Anybody try cutting off the subjects hand yet and see if they can get it to walk around the room for a while? Come on Sony, inquiring minds want to know! You can afford the lawsuit! JUST DO IT!
That's great, but I'd like to know if there's any chance of doing this in reverse. That is, a non-invasive method of receiving electrical hand signals and converting them to inputs to a computer. Such a device would be much better than the previous idea I've been wheeling out every now and then on /. as a replacement for electrodes in the brain for computer feedback.
Ask me about repetitive DNA
Did we start doing this somewhere like 150 years ago with dead frogs? Bruce Lee used this type of electro-stimulation to work out his muscles. All Sony is doing is controlling it with a new control program that makes your hand go to Sony.com and order lots and lots of crappy hardware. :)
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Yeah, because "RebelWarlock" is your name.
I think we need a new filter, because most of the 7-digit id accounts are idiots and trolls with nothing useful to contribute.
We apologize to those who have had their hands hacked by our latest security breach.
Huge corporation researches ways to force humans to do their bidding. What could possibly go wrong?
finally my exercise can be done for me...