{"id":128,"date":"2005-04-08T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2005-04-08T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T08:32:14","slug":"sony_patents_prophetic_inventi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/sony_patents_prophetic_inventi\/","title":{"rendered":"sony patents prophetic invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has secured a patent for a theoretical device that creates &#8220;sensory experiences&#8221; in the brain by sending ultrasonic pulses directly to the neural cortex &#8211; a non-invasive (that is, non-surgical) procedure, with the potential to give sight to the blind, or sound to the deaf. Gives a glimpse at what these tech giants are imagining for  human entertainment further down the road.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=mg18624944.600\">New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Sony patent takes first step towards real-life Matrix&#8221;:<br \/>\n<i>Elizabeth Boukis, spokeswoman for Sony Electronics, says the work is speculative. &#8220;There were not any experiments done,&#8221; she says. &#8220;This particular patent was a prophetic invention. It was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;d=PALL&#038;RefSrch=yes&#038;Query=PN%2F6536440\">Link<\/a> to patent.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has secured a patent for a theoretical device that creates &#8220;sensory experiences&#8221; in the brain by sending ultrasonic pulses directly to the neural cortex &#8211; a non-invasive (that is, non-surgical) procedure, with the potential to give sight to the blind, or sound to the deaf. Gives a glimpse at what these tech giants are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-performing-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}