Man, it’s been a while. I’ve gotten really busy lately and blogging hasn’t really even crossed my mind. For some reason when i saw this post on /. decided to put something in here about it. Sony has just been granted 2 patents on methods for inserting false stimulation into the human brain via ultrasonic pusles. While you don’t have to have a working prototype or anything to get a patent granted i have to wonder what if anything they’ve done to test the idea out. It’s cool and scary at the same time. While it would be a neat addition to video gaming i can’t help but thing that it could be used in some pretty nasty ways. Imagine stimulating areas of the brain associated with particular emotions in order to get a desired response out of someone. You could possible, truely put the fear of death in someone without putting them in any real physical peril. while i can’t imagine this is a working prototype and would think that doing this with any real success would be extremely complicated i don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible. If not with this particular method with some other yet to be discovered.