Control your friends like a regular svengali!

[Greatgat]

Now you too can ram your friends repeatedly in the walls and refrigerators with a device to control their movements. No shit.

Honestly, this disturbs the living hell out me.

edit: To CptStern's post: Svengali. For those not in the know.

 

[CptStern]

heheh I can almost imagine the flurry of activity from members franctically pointing browsers towards dictionary.com to look up the meaning of "svengali"





I'm right arent I?



on topic ...why would anyone willingly give control to someone else? no thanks

 

[Beerdude26]

I love it. I'd have loads of fun running my friends into walls

And it's designed for movement aid, not movement control.

 

[Greatgat]

I love it. I'd have loads of fun running my friends into walls

And it's designed for movement aid, not movement control.

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It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head -- either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.

I found the experience unnerving and exhausting: I sought to step straight ahead but kept careening from side to side. Those alternating currents literally threw me off.

I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced -- mistakenly -- that this was the only way to maintain my balance.

The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.

If you're determined to fight the suggestive orders from the electric currents by clinging to a fence or just lying on your back, you simply won't move.

But from my experience, if the currents persist, you'd probably be persuaded to follow their orders. And I didn't like that sensation. At all.

Well, doesn't that beat all...

 

[Beerdude26]

If the sensation of movement can be captured for playback, then people can better understand what a ballet dancer or an Olympian gymnast is doing, and that could come handy in teaching such skills.

And it may also help people dodge oncoming cars or direct a rescue worker in a dark tunnel, NTT researchers say. They maintain that the point is not to control people against their will.

Intentions FTW \0/


BTW, it's an early technology, it might not even give those weird feeling at all. Oh, and I forgot to quote the part about virtual reality

 

[Ennui]

This is actually similar to how the Zombie Master controls his undead hordes.

Actually no, he does it with some vile means of dark magic, but this is still a rather interesting topic.

 

[W4E]

All i can say is. I WANT ONE!!!!

Wow christmas suddenly seems so far away

 

[Raziaar]

[SARCASM]Perfect technology to coincide with clone developments.[/SARCASM]

 

[Beerdude26]

[SARCASM]Perfect technology to coincide with clone developments.[/SARCASM]

Duh, 15357 is an escaped clone, and all he could think of a username was that odd tag on his arm

 

[OCybrManO]

It's actually old technology but, this time around, under the guise of "mind control" it seems to be getting more press. It's just a reflex. All it does is **** with your balance sensing. When it tricks that... the mind tries to automatically "correct" your orientation. It works even though you know the secret, like optical illusions, because of the way you're wired. I heard about something like it years ago. Seriously, it must have been like 5 years ago... maybe more.

 

[Pauly]

man thats sweet... I want to be controlled... that would be soo weird.

 

[Vegeta897]

You can tell who read the article and who didn't in this thread

This is such a simple concept, CybrMan you are exactly right.

 

[Raziaar]

You can tell who read the article and who didn't in this thread

This is such a simple concept, CybrMan you are exactly right.

Of course we read and comprehended it... at least, i'm sure most did. However, we like being smartasses and having fun when we post, like per my reply above.

Electrical impulses that force the body to move certain muscles it certain ways is boring... the thought of complete control moving somebody with a remote control is a fantastical concept that does much better for entertaining discussion in a thread.

 

[Gui!]

erch noway would i want my mind yo be manipulated like that, i would like to control myself and stay a free man. Just the whole idea of it freaks me out

 

[Evo]

*Controls Gui! to buy Evo a beer* :cheers:

Pretty cool tech if it can do that! :E

 

[Greatgat]

*Controls Gui! to buy Evo a beer* :cheers:

Pretty cool tech if it can do that! :E

I also like how some company mentioned in that article were experimenting with a weapon that would shoot electromagnetic rays at peoples ears to induce dizziness as a non-leathal weapon.

"Gentlemen! Don't fire until you see the folds of their ears!"

 

[Raziaar]

I also like how some company mentioned in that article were experimenting with a weapon that would shoot electromagnetic rays at peoples ears to induce dizziness as a non-leathal weapon.

"Gentlemen! Don't fire until you see the folds of their ears!"

The military already has a weapon that can produce EXTREMELY debilitating waves of sound in a directed arc that can incapacitate.

 

[Greatgat]

The military already has a weapon that can produce EXTREMELY debilitating waves of sound in a directed arc that can incapacitate.

Yes, but this uses electromagneticism, which sounds so much cooler.

Electromagnetics>Sound

edit: Oh yeah, and the EM is of more use if we ever get in a horrific, system wide space war.

 

[15357]

Duh, 15357 is an escaped clone, and all he could think of a username was that odd tag on his arm

Barcode, actually.


Now you must die or be cleansed...




anyway, I WANT ONE TOO!