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Wired: Has Japan's top telephone company stumbled upon a remote control for humans?
An Associated Press reporter who weathered a demonstration of "galvanic vestibular stimulation," a technology developed by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, says she was unnerved by the experience. A special headset sent a low-voltage jolt of electricity from behind her ears through her head, and a joystick-toting researcher controlled the current's path -- and the reporter's. "I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right," she said. NTT says it might incorporate the technology, which works because electricity affects the nerves in the ear that help humans maintain their balance, into video games or amusement park rides.via Kunal. 0
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |