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Linda
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation  Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:05 pm |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/ ... index.html
>> LONDON, England (Reuters) -- If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf.
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images.
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."
According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells.
Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves.
A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us." <<
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Fraxon!
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:39 pm |
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I'm just having an input jack hard-wired into my cerebral cortex....
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Darren
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:11 am |
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No risk in the operation, I understand. Well to YOU.
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Ed Sanders
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:06 pm |
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Just change my name to Neo.......
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Fraxon!
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:30 pm |
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Darren wrote: No risk in the operation, I understand. Well to YOU.
That's what my doctor tells me. You've heard of my doctor, right? Dr. Vinnie BoomBOTZ!!!! 
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Ed Sanders
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:17 pm |
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Darren
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:26 am |
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Aw. Linda visits GameLand, and Frankie cranks past 3000 in the same thread! We are honoured!!!
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Fraxon!
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:50 am |
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Pshaw....The honour is all yours....OURS! The honour is all OURS.... 
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Ed Sanders
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:14 am |
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Fraxon! wrote: Pshaw....The honour is all yours....OURS! The honour is all OURS.... Gee...suprised you don't spell your last name Saxoun
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Fraxon!
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:29 am |
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Something to add Mr. Saunders?
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Ed Sanders
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:30 am |
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Fraxon! wrote: Something to add Mr. Saunders?
Hey...only the Sanders with class and money spell it with that fancy U added 
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Gator
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Post subject: Sony BrainStation Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:50 pm |
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You can call me 'Leo'
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Fraxon! wrote: I'm just having an input jack hard-wired into my cerebral cortex....
"Wires"??
That's so old school. I'm going blue-tooth.
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