Sony aims to beam sights, sounds into brain

000 · Post by **000** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:43 pm

"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."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/04/...reut/index.html

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:42 pm

I think someone should make that device I saw on Gilligan's Island. The episode where the Skipper's brain is switched with Gilligan's brain. That would be really cool.

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000 · Post by **000** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:47 pm

Bookworm wrote: I think someone should make that device I saw on Gilligan's Island. The episode where the Skipper's brain is switched with Gilligan's brain. That would be really cool.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:21 am

I read this, crazy eh? Imagine when this technology becomes more commonplace.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:47 pm

Yeah pretty cool they can do that.

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000 · Post by **000** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:04 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Yeah pretty cool they can do that.

Not really.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:45 pm

They can't really do anything at this point, they just have a patent.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:29 pm

My bad, I thought it was talking about this.

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:51 pm

I don't really like this. I want to see this kind of technology in the real world, and what kind of incentives do companies have to develop it when someone else already owns the patent for it?

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:55 pm

manadren wrote: I don't really like this. I want to see this kind of technology in the real world, and what kind of incentives do companies have to develop it when someone else already owns the patent for it?

That's the whole point, really, which bites.

The patent system sucks; why the hell can you patent something that you don't have a proof-of-concept for? I thought you HAD to have a proof-of-concept item to get the patent, but I guess that was dropped quite a while ago :/

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:09 am

sintekk wrote:
manadren wrote: I don't really like this. I want to see this kind of technology in the real world, and what kind of incentives do companies have to develop it when someone else already owns the patent for it?

That's the whole point, really, which bites.

The patent system sucks; why the hell can you patent something that you don't have a proof-of-concept for? I thought you HAD to have a proof-of-concept item to get the patent, but I guess that was dropped quite a while ago :/

Indeed. And I think it's especially bad in cases like this. This kind of technology isn't the kind that gets created all at once by one company. It's the kind that's built upon several small breakthroughs from all over the world. Can we say that such work will still be done now that sony has the patent? True a good amount wprobably will, but research can't be done without funding, and those with the funding don't give it out if they can't profit from it later.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:57 am

Just beam the info into the brain using a different process, maybe gamma radiation. Only make sure you don't become outraged, or you'll turn green. Really though, they did just patent the one theoretical process, there may be other ways of doing it,

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:21 pm

The US patent office are a bunch of crooks. It's a really stupid system.

Ex: some guy invented a machine that harvests energy normally lost in motors. He made a bunch of dead batteries power a huge windmil turbine.

He did everything to prove to the patent office that it was not perpetual motion, because for some dumb reason if it happened to be, and that it still worked, they would refuse to patent it.

So he brings the machine and when he's not around they tamper with it to make it so it wont work. How do they get away with this?

I'd haveto find an article on this, I'm sure it's been on the news before, it happened a while back. I saw the machine on a TV show. It inspired me to build mine which is still on paper and could probably change the way we use energy. I'm hoping the Canadian patant office is not as horrible as the US one. But I'd have to deal with the US one anyway, if mine happened to work. (so simple I may already have been thought of)

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000 · Post by **000** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:02 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:
I'd haveto find an article on this, I'm sure it's been on the news before, it happened a while back.

Please find it. Never heard of it. I'd love to read it.

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RazorRaiser · Post by **RazorRaiser** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:47 am

i've heard of stuff like this, they could make some really real looking scenarios with this, but what if you're watching some war movie with that and all the sudden somebody gets PTS?

on a related story, anyone hear about those smellovision (might have been called smelly telly) things people are predicting to come out? sure hope i can turn smells off when i watch ninja turtles

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:34 pm

A company that was making smell technology went bankrupt a few years ago, that's all I remember on the matter o_O

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:40 pm

Bookworm wrote: Really though, they did just patent the one theoretical process, there may be other ways of doing it,

Exactly, you just have to be smart enough to come up with a different way. It's like blaming microsoft for patenting internet explorer and saying it's the reason there are no other browsers. There are always other ways of doing something, corporations can never patent them all.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:24 pm

I find it stupid they can patent stuff that's not even made. I have a bunch of ideas for "free engery" but I just never got around to building a prototype to see if it actually works. But if I was evil I could patent it so if someone happends to come up with it too well they can't use it. It's such a stupid system.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:10 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: It's such a stupid system.

I've trademarked the phrase "It's such a stupid system" so you can't use it anymore.

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:14 pm

Bookworm wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: It's such a stupid system.

I've trademarked the phrase "It's such a stupid system" so you can't use it anymore.

Yeah well I've trademarked trademark and all words related to it and sound like it.

And I've trademarked "orange" too.

Anyone using these words should expect a strongly worded letter.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:13 pm

Sad part, it's probably possible. Sony patended "shock and awe" and got away with it. (or was it sony?)

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:38 am

Trademarking something doesn't mean you can't use it, it means you can't sell it.

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Jex Bane · Post by **Jex Bane** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:19 pm

MrSelf wrote: Trademarking something doesn't mean you can't use it, it means you can't sell it.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:26 pm

That is, quite possibly, the most confusing thing I've read in years...

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Brooklynite · Post by **Brooklynite** » Tue May 10, 2005 4:39 pm

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Yeah I think it's really stupid to patent phrases. Donald Trump tried to patent the phrase "you fired", and Bill O' Reily sued when Al Franken when he used his "Fair and Balanced" mantra in his book. Fortunately Mr. Trump didn't suceede in getting "You're fired" patented, and the judge threw out O'reily's case immediately.

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