The Red Bull Diary   Recent Posts
  • Sin City
  • Museum of Online Museums
  • ~DDO
  • $Pennington Offered to Pay for Coles Out-of-Pocket
  • $MTA Approves Jets Stadium
  • Oddly Pontifical
  • Cohabitation Illegal in North Carolina
  • ^Soul Calibur III
  • 24 Recap
  • A Newscaster Spazzes
    		•
    RSSRSS Friday Free Games
    "Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever."
    — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen

    Sony Patents Theoretical Matrix Technology Monday, April 11, 2005

    As reported by New Scientist, Sony has been granted a theoretical patent on technology that will use ultrasonic waves to transmit sensory data directly to a human brain. People are comparing it to The Matrix, but the science, apparently, is sound. Niels Birbaumer, a pioneering German neuroscientist in the field of Brain-Computer Interfaces, called the idea "plausible". Birbaumer invented a device in the early 1990's that could be controlled by the power of positive and negative "slow-waves" emitted by subjects' brains.

          

    Comments on Sony Patents Theoretical Matrix Technology

    Pandora: My Favorite New Songs
    LibraryThing: What I'm Currently Reading
    Archive Links
    [March 2005] [April 2005] [May 2005] [June 2005] [July 2005] [August 2005] [September 2005] [October 2005] [November 2005] [December 2005] [January 2006] [February 2006] [March 2006] [April 2006] [May 2006] [June 2006] [July 2006] [August 2006] [September 2006] [October 2006] [November 2006] [December 2006] [January 2007] [February 2007] [March 2007] [April 2007] [May 2007] [June 2007] [July 2007] [August 2007] [September 2007] [October 2007] [November 2007] [December 2007] [January 2008] [February 2008] [March 2008] [April 2008] [May 2008] [June 2008] [July 2008] [August 2008] [September 2008] [October 2008] [November 2008] [December 2008] [January 2009] [May 2010] 
    Friends of the Red Bull
    Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida

    Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew
    The Red Bull Diary Is
    The Red Bull Diary is the personal pulpit and intellectual dumping-ground for its author, an amateur game designer, professional programmer, political centrist and incurable skeptic. The Red Bull Diary is gaming, game design, politics, development, geek culture, and other such nonsense.