-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 10:37 AM 09/10/1999 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >At 09:53 AM 19990910 -0400, Rehmi Post wrote: >>A catchier name for his ThinkMan (tm) would be the ElectroShockMan. >> >>Don't try this at home, kidz. > >Also note that his other discoveries appear to be: > >Pyramid Power >Magic Crystals >Talking to Dolphins >and >Longevity Water. > >It all sounds too good to be true. Also, the box costs a mere $600 >and doesn't actually say you can hear high-fidelity stereo sound - >just that your nervous system will be influenced. While I am a convinced that of sensory induction is possible, I have to agree here in this case. What convinces me is the claim the the DOD has had it since 1967. The US military doesn't slap a Top Secret rating on a civilian patent unless they think there is a direct application for it - and while the Pentagon has thown money after some incredibly stupid things in the past, they would at least demonstrate its usefulness or uselessness. If it worked, they would have incorporated it into *something* by now; there are too many applications it would be useful for, where ordinary headsets are ineffective or too complex to use. Also, from his description, the setup is actually *simpler* than an ordinary speaker. There have been thousands of researchers working on sensory induction over the past four decades. The probability that at least one other would stumble onto the such as simple method is too high to believe that it's remained a secret. Anyone who looks at the history of invention will see that most such discoveries are repeated independently in several places (i.e., Edison and Westinghouse(?) with the lightbulb; the Wrights and Whitehead for heavier than air flight; Marconi and Tesla for radio; von Neumann, Eckert and Addisonoff for the stored-program computer). The chances are that this would have been duplicated, too, if it was for real. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN9pu8RP+DcK/9dz8EQK2UACg7jQDrCdlPYev6GMOf/eQGdgGJoUAnAlV +FQ0/T5fHJ+XFSc1sr5D3/0n =TfkW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- J Osako Programmer Analyst, Operating Systems Designer, Notational Engineer http://www.slip.net/~scholr/resume.html -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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