Sony aims to beam sights, sounds into brain
 

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."


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Holy shit - can anyone else see the applications to porn??

i could see a ton of lawsuits from something like this if it ever came about.

Porn movies could take on a new meaning, if you could have the sensory experiences of smell, taste, and touch with the model

would be awesome to actually have more senses involved. way to go Sony for taking porn to the next level

If this gets fully implemented it has endless possibilities for games, porn, movies.. it could also kill a person =/

now that wasnt the limit I thought of.. but a definite possibility. could take gaming to the next level.. fry brain cells with each loss until your a vegetable