Get a remote control for your children!

[Pumble]

So will 100% of people respond to these waves 100% of the time or is it just extremely hard to resist doing what they tell you?

[NuclearShadow]

Then theres the whole "Rape is illegal thing", but I'm sure the police wouldn't mind.

It's not rape if they want to have sex with you...

[jamuko]

So will 100% of people respond to these waves 100% of the time or is it just extremely hard to resist doing what they tell you?

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.

So it's more like extreme persuasion than true "remote control".

I imagine it's like the feeling you get after spinning around and making yourself dizzy... you feel like some force is swaying you in a certain direction and end up wobbling all over the place. It seems to be like that, only controlled.

[87x]

Well the thing is, is that it "makes" you do something by throwing you off balance. Its like that spinning rooms. The walls are moving not the bridge you are standing on, but thats not what you perseve it as so thats not how you react. The room just "made" you turn the opposite way that it is spinning. I mean, nobody wants to fall on their face and look stupid and/or get hurt. Basically this thing "is" controlling you by means of manipulation.

[super-smashman]

Another program had the electric current timed to music. My head was pulsating against my will, getting jerked around on my neck. I became so dizzy I could barely stand. I had to turn it off.

THAT'S IT!

Virtual Virtual Revolution!

[Tokzic]

I'd like to try this just to see if I can resist it.

[banditcom]

Morally incorrect if it was and could be built for bad things. However, it's not.

It sounds like it has a lot of potential.

[evilbutterfly]

I don't see how this is morally incorrect at all. I think people misread it because of the title or that they didn't even read the full article at all. Like they said, it just throws your balance off so that you feel like walking in a certain direction. Yeah, it could be used for harm, but just about anything can go either way. Like, fireworks are pretty displays, but they also can be shot at people and kill them. Or nuclear bombs, they're super harmful and shouldn't ever be used again, but nuclear power is friggin sweet and helps out a lot.

And I would love to see this thing implemented into games. Personally, I wouldn't like it if it HAD to be used with the game and couldn't be turned off, but I don't think we'd have to worry about that. I mean, you can turn off vibration in pretty much every game nowadays, and I dunno anybody who does yet they still have the option. But with this, imagine how awesome it would be if when you got shot in a game you felt something in the exact spot you were hit. I mean, I don't want the game to shock me and hurt me when I get hurt in the game, but I would love a better indicator of where I've been hit so I know which way to go to run away from it. I mean, in real life, somebody shoots you and you don't spin around in circles looking for where they are, you know that something shot you in the ass from 5 o'clock.

And as for controlling games with the headsets....oh man. I'm sure a lot of people would be creeped out because "IT'S READING MY THOUGHTS OHNOES" just because people are paranoid and don't understand that your thoughts are way too complicated to be read like that, but it would still be cool. I bet the next generation or so will grow up with crazy stuff like this and find it completely normal.

Also, the technology to send understandable signals to people's brains will be EXTREMELY helpful. Yes, there is the threat of mind control and blah blah blah, but think of the possibilities. Imagine if you were blind, but they found a way to hook up a camera to send signals to your brain and act as an eye, allowing you to see again. Same goes for deaf people and hearing aids that, rather than amplify sounds, sent signals into your brain to let you know what's there. Also, that sort of thing would bound to be great for investigating crimes. If a computer simulation of a murder scene could be set up and put into a person's brain, we'd be able to see how they react to things and relate that to how the killer would react. Or if we could read people's thoughts so witnesses could SHOW us what they saw the night of the crime, there wouldn't be any problem with bad descriptions or things of that sort.

I am super excited about this sort of thing.

[Silver_Brian]

I don't see how this is morally incorrect at all. I think people misread it because of the title or that they didn't even read the full article at all. Like they said, it just throws your balance off so that you feel like walking in a certain direction.

I read this in the newspaper. It didn't initially strike me as interesting or weird, but I guess if they further developed this idea...