Amoebistan
27-10-2005, 15:53
So we learn that galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) makes people tilt or veer off their intended course. GVS is essentially using small voltages applied to the sides of the head to affect the vestibular organs, which are the receptors we use to determine balance and adjust our posture or stride accordingly.
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation has developed a remote-control headset that can force people to tilt or veer off course on command. Basically, the ear parts have electrodes on them, and they respond to radio signals from the controller by applying specific voltages, and, well, the rest is up to the person wearing the headset. You can apparently resist it by refusing to move, but it's apparently pretty compelling, according to Yuri Kageyama, an AP reporter who was persuaded to try on the headset.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/25/human.remote.control.ap/index.html
What does this say, if anything, about possibilities of further development into balance therapy and training or "technologic totalitarianism" (to quote Peter Breggin)?
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation has developed a remote-control headset that can force people to tilt or veer off course on command. Basically, the ear parts have electrodes on them, and they respond to radio signals from the controller by applying specific voltages, and, well, the rest is up to the person wearing the headset. You can apparently resist it by refusing to move, but it's apparently pretty compelling, according to Yuri Kageyama, an AP reporter who was persuaded to try on the headset.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/10/25/human.remote.control.ap/index.html
What does this say, if anything, about possibilities of further development into balance therapy and training or "technologic totalitarianism" (to quote Peter Breggin)?