just FYI...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/remote_control_for_humans

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"Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer Thu Oct 27, 9:08 PM ET ATSUGI, Japan - We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was. Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Japans top telephone company, says it is developing the technology to perhaps make video games more realistic. But more sinister applications also come to mind. I can envision it being added to militaries' arsenals of so-called "non-lethal" weapons. A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. 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. The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation — essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance. 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. There's no proven-beyond-a-doubt explanation yet as to why people start veering when electricity hits their ear. But NTT researchers say they were able to make a person walk along a route in the shape of a giant pretzel using this technique. It's a mesmerizing sensation similar to being drunk or melting into sleep under the influence of anesthesia. But it's more definitive, as though an invisible hand were reaching inside your brain."

This brings to mind the fact that governments have sonic and other various sophisticated crowd control devices:

Focused Sound 'Laser' for Crowd Control
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4857417

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"Earlier this year in Jerusalem, the Israeli Army used a device nicknamed "The Scream" to scatter protest groups. The Scream sends out noise at frequencies that affect the inner ear, creating dizziness and nausea. The device can also cause hearing damage."

[Edited on October 28, 2005 at 11:46 AM. Reason : 1]

10/28/2005 11:44:15 AM

I'd like to get one of these and make salisburyboy walk off a cliff.

10/28/2005 11:50:39 AM

I bet you would.

10/28/2005 11:53:03 AM

My personal favorite is the giant microwave gun that agitates the water molecules in peoples' skins, causing a burning sensation that gets stronger the closer they get.

10/28/2005 11:57:26 AM

i've seen this... there's a video of it somewhere. pretty crazy

10/28/2005 12:01:00 PM

^^ they had one of those in Batman Begins!!!!!11

10/28/2005 12:08:22 PM

It is really freaky too. I can't even imagine the uproar that would be evoked if any law enforcement agency actually started to use such an item.

10/28/2005 12:13:38 PM

i missed this gem

12/7/2005 2:14:00 PM

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"just FYI..."

12/7/2005 3:17:07 PM

i really dont understand how this "brings to mind" sonic crowd control devices

12/7/2005 3:33:14 PM

does he even know how to read?

12/7/2005 7:39:42 PM

what a stupid son of a bitch

12/7/2005 7:57:35 PM

Quote :

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12/7/2005 8:35:18 PM

Sounds pretty neat, fuck off salisbury

12/7/2005 9:03:21 PM

Already being used.

12/7/2005 9:54:10 PM

Mr. T once captured Bigfoot, but released him after he shaved the beast and realized that it was just Chuck Norris walking around naked in the woods.

12/7/2005 9:58:30 PM

wait wait wait

it can make you turn your head left or right?



OMG

WHAT IF I WANT TO SAY "YES", BUT THE MACHINE MAKES ME SAY "NO"

12/7/2005 10:02:26 PM

IT IS PROOF THAT ORDINARY MEN CAN BE TURNED INTO SNIPERS CAPABLE OF SHOOTING A 99% BULLSEYE AT 2 MILE RANGE

12/7/2005 10:20:26 PM

^^ Then you are in some deep doo doo my friend

12/7/2005 10:33:05 PM

12/7/2005 10:36:07 PM

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"Mr. T once captured Bigfoot, but released him after he shaved the beast and realized that it was just Chuck Norris walking around naked in the woods."

Chuck would not have put up with that shit so this is false.

12/8/2005 12:48:45 AM

ok

12/8/2005 9:53:44 AM

bttt

2/28/2006 3:15:06 AM

asfd

[Edited on March 1, 2006 at 6:08 PM. Reason : don't be a pain in the ass by posting huge images]

2/28/2006 8:32:06 AM

one more and im suspending you until duke gets on

2/28/2006 8:34:46 AM

GO RIGHT AHEAD

HE GETS A POWER TRIP SO I GUESS YOU DO TOO

2/28/2006 8:53:08 AM

bttt in absence of theduke

3/1/2006 2:30:35 AM