Sony patents advanced Matrix Brain Koppler
Yes its seems it is future week. Today comes something totally unexpected this early in the millennium. A device that everyone who has seen one of the Matrix Films knows about: A Brain Plug. Its not quite a Plug though as you have seen in the movies. It works through ultra sonic sounds so you don´t even have to implant a port.
The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex…
now get this:
No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds.
If that is not something that is taken from imagination and patented "just in case we have a product in the next 100 years available" its one of the most revolutionary advances in technology I have ever witnessed. Basically it means you can now be totally immersed in a multi media landscape -> all fake and it happens right inside your brain. But I believe it when I see and test it myself. Would I test it? I think so... Sounds like one of the weirdest trips down memory lane.
original reuters article
arstechnica on the case
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