Human Remote Controls

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/25/human.remote.control.ap/index.html

Hmm something tells me were about to go too far.

I thought having a camera that shows you on the screen for a video game was pretty neat, but this is too far. Do people really want to get inside the game this bad? This sounds like some movie of a mad scientist's evil plan to get one of these into every home and then take over the world.

That. Totally. Rules. Imagine the unflinching, unblinking army one could amass with a few million of those devices. This could possibly be the single greatest thing since sliced bread.

Hmm,this is interesting,the psychotic narcistic twisted self obsessed madman in me thinks this is an excellant idea,while the sensible,noble,normal side of me thinks this is a step too far,i see the benefits and would like to try this out,but i can see it going wrong and why some people would object to it.
Next step,evil clown army!.

I dunno about it ethically, but I sure as hell want to try it out.

I'm with PP, I'd hate it to fall in the wrong hands with me wearing it, but I'll be damned if it doesn't look cool.
The remote however sucks. It looks like we're back in the 80's or something.

I don't see what's so exciting. All it stimulates are your ears, where the 'balance-organ' is located. All this can and will do will make you feel as if you are out of balance. I think this might be interesting for astronauts, who have difficulties with this 'organ', but for video games? I don't know.

Mr U

This still seems far from remote controlling humans. I'd say we'll get to that stage when you can actually remote control people's thoughts. Still, it's kinda creepy.

At the university I am currently attending, R. Goebel has been working on fMRI (which looks at the increased blood flow in brain areas), and has used the amount of blood flow to one area as a measure.

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040823/pf/040823-18_pf.html

This has allowed a person to control the flow of blood to one's brain, and to use it in a game. Of course, it could be applied outside of pong as well. However, it must be added that a fMRI scanner is very large, and that this system works with a delay of a couple of seconds. Not because the system is slow, but because the blood flow is slow.

I personally doubt whether we will ever get a complete enough brain map to actually read from the brain feedback to create a proper simulation. Let alone stimulate the brain in experiencing certain things. A lot of these kind of machines appear as if they control our brain, but often their function is a lot, lot more simpler. In the last 20 years huge advancements have been made in neurology, and of course also fMRI, but this is by no means enough to create a real simulator, as one would like to play a computer game like say, Oblivion.
Still, there is progress, so who knows?

Mr U