OMG! Remote control for humans

[BeBMan]

Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer Wed Oct 26, 7:28 AM 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.

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Full: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051026/...rol_for_humans

Discuss

[Spiffor]

I hate this prospect

[:) Smiley]

I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.

While teh Japanese are envisioning this for videogaming, I think there could be a huge market in America for exercise machines.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I hate this prospect

Me too. Seriously, even if it would come only in form of harmless stuff for games - I personally would not it at all.

[Thorn]

Great now we can have all the little kids with helmets doing Sieg Heil Bush..... with their arms straight up in the air, on command...


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[DanS]

Originally posted by Smiley

I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.

While teh Japanese are envisioning this for videogaming, I think there could be a huge market in America for exercise machines.

Pure. Marketing. Genius.

[Bill3000]

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