Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
An anonymous reader writes "A device created by the University of Tokyo and Sony Laboratories called PossessedHand allows researchers to control a subject's hand via electrical stimulation. While currently being used to teach students to play the koto, a Japanese traditional stringed instruments, just imagine the possibilities! Twilight Zone anyone?"
I'll pass (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll pass (Score:4, Funny)
So, the new "I didn't look at porn, it's a virus" is now "I didn't jack off, it's a virus"?
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It will feel like someone else automatically.
There's a name for that. It's called The Stranger :)
It's worse than that (Score:4, Funny)
Sony is just looking for a way to install a DRM rootkit on your nervous system.
Remember that article from a week ago about being able to turn memories on and off in rats with electrical signals [newscientist.com]? Now the next time you hear/view copyrighted media you'll immediately forget what you saw if you stop paying subscription fees for those memories.
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Now the next time you hear/view copyrighted media you'll immediately forget what you saw if you stop paying subscription fees for those memories.
You seem to imply that but just stopping a subscription I could get some of those things out of my head. That might not be a bad thing. Sounds cheaper and less dangerous than a power drill from Home Depot.
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Even worse, there could be no 12 years old hackers so your hand would be instead controlled by a corporation that rooted our PCs without telling anything just because they don't like you to possibly violate their rights. That is, ethically speaking, a just below average corporation :D
In general this tech will likely end up with getting a genre of dystopic literature on its own: self inflicted deaths or torture for better cover up of the culprits and stuff like that.
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So now they can control signatures on bills, and your hand when you're trying to download anything! Clever!
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Great, now anytime someone gives Sony a hard time they can play a game of "Stop Hitting Yourself".
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Any other frustrated bad amateur musicians seeing the really cool side to this?
Despite my best efforts I remain a really bad Guitar player and do even worse on a Ukulele... My neighbours might club together and buy me one ....
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Finally! (Score:1)
The proof I need to get out of prison...
Application in DRM? (Score:3, Funny)
Sony DRM is getting out of hand.
Re:Application in DRM? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually it seems to be getting IN hand.
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I definitely say these jokes are writing themselves.
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Whatever it is, I'm not going to hand over my rights.
Damn (Score:3, Funny)
The joke here is way too obvious. I'll pass.
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Someone with points to spare, please lend this guy a hand.
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ACs start at -1
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Your IP has karma penalty if you get modded down enough and you don't have an account.
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I've seen threads where all of the ACs were -1, even when the comment was relevant to the discussion and unmoderated. But this guy [slashdot.org] explained it.
Sony made me do it (Score:2)
I know.... (Score:1)
.... Kung Fu.
Great... (Score:2)
First they trojan my PC with XCP, now they want to hack my hand!
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Isn't it odd that we didn't rule that out as impossible when we saw that next to the name Sony?
Yeesh (Score:2)
Wouldn't it be easier to just ASK someone to pass the salt???
What else? (Score:2)
Goodbye Viagra!
You are doing it wrong (Score:3)
Dear Sony: I already control my hands with the mighty power of thought.
I want to control computers with that power now.
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No, you got it wrong: In Sony Russia, computer controls YOU.
The idea is not to give you more control over something, the idea is to get more control over you.
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The only opinion I got from LulzSec was that they were all morons.
In Soviet Japan.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Am I the only one that thinks this is cool? (Score:2)
Okay, all jokes aside, the stated use of this tech is friggin' awesome! Learning to play an instrument with an instructor that can literally position your hand for you sounds like a pretty novel experience. You could use it to help teach all kinds of musical instruments. Scale it up and you could do some pretty nifty stuff, too. I bet it'd be useful for certain types of physical therapy. You could use it for a force-feedback gaming. With some accelerometers and orientation sensors you could probably use a s
Am I the only one that thinks this is scary? (Score:2)
All the examples you give are well and good, but since we're not talking about a company or research lab I'd put any trust in, my thoughts go more to the question how this could be abused to gain control over my hands.
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It looks pretty uncomfortable and inaccurate as of yet. I highly doubt it will properly position your hands for any real musical instrument at this point.
Developing 'muscle memory' with it while not actually playing the device is hardly the same.
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I bet it'd be useful for certain types of physical therapy.
It's already used in physiotherapy / physical therapy. It's called Electro-Muscle Stimulation. It helps to build proprioceptive feedback in patients with injuries. On a side note, if you jack up the dial, it'll turn your extremity into a fully seized claw. Fun times.
New PS3 add-on... (Score:2)
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand (Score:1)
Just think of the possible [masturbation] uses.
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Human Puppets (Score:2)
blah blah blah on how this could help humanity and .01% of the world's population with a disability or in need of a prosthetic.
Tamaki is confident that people will get used to the idea once they see how useful it can be: "We believe convenient technology will overcome a feeling of fear."
Justifiable fear. What the fuck is with the Japanese penchant for controlling living things remotely? If the damn \. search was half useful you would find cockroaches and human balance having been controlled remotely. Is
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If the damn \. search was half useful
Google to the rescue. "[search phrase] site:slashdot.org"
Try this link ;) [google.com]
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Don't be stupid. Machines don't think. They won't rise up. Ever. That's just scifi silliness, akin to time travel and teleportation. What you should be worried about is how people will use this. People can be a lot more sinister than some fictional robot overlord. This has obvious implications in slave labor and population control. Just install some circuitry in convicted felons to keep them nice and controlled in prison, and a remote kill switch switch should do wonders for recidivism. And at that
Focal dystonia (Score:1)
PS3-kinect (Score:2)
Perhaps someone could build something that would enable a PS3 and Xbox 360 to communicate using the players hands
One final performance (Score:2)
No more messy machines needed to set up a "suicide".
Is it like hypnosis? (Score:1)
It seems implicit here that the subjects actually want to know how to play music; would it work against one's will or is the "hypnosis limitation" applicable?
Reminds me of "Gamer" (Score:1)
Stop hitting yourself! (Score:3)
I know that this technology will end up being used by bullies.
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I know that this technology will end up being used by bullies.
On the bright side, lawyers will be cheering on this piece of technology as sexual harassment lawsuit suddenly became a lot more complicated.
Defendant: "I'm sorry your honor, I did not mean to smack Ms Fanny Widebottom delicious booty. Sony implanted a hand controlling device in me"
Lawyer : "It's true your honor. My client simply has no control over his hands due to the defective product being hacked."
I also can't help but think about what this could do to further research into creating zombies.
Boomstick. (Score:1)
1) Cut off Sony rooted hand.
2) Replace with chainsaw.
3) ????
4) Kill demons.
The hidden agenda is (Score:2)
Move the hand forward (Score:1)
Evil Hand (Score:2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewQwZroEuec [youtube.com]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-jVgWY9Ej0 [youtube.com]
(NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekm871gZ5TM [youtube.com]
For paraplegics... (Score:2)
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Google for "Functional Muscle Stimulation" research over the last 3 decades. Some recent big milestones too.
I visited one researcher and saw the neat rows and columns of circular scars where he had taken core samples of
his own muscles during experiments. n > 100. That is dedication.
Welcome news for the basement dwellers (Score:2)
Don't watch the Matrix on Blu-Ray! (Score:2)
Stranger (Score:2)
Idle Hands (Score:1)
The excuse is dead, long live the excuse (Score:1)
It wasn't me, it was my hand.
Outstanding! (Score:2)
I wonder if it could teach the girls new tricks. :)
Tele-dutch rudder (Score:1)
Sony Hand? (Score:1)
You probably need a special proprietary Sony hand, because Sony products seem to have exceptional capabilities for getting hacked. I would think our own genetics would make for some tougher hacking than anything Sony puts out or uses, which would obviously call for a third-party hand.
Uses... (Score:2)
I could see this used:
- to help people move whose nerves are damaged. Combine that with mind readers (ex. Emotiv [emotiv.com], NeuroSky [neurosky.com]) and we're part way there. We'd also need something to send feedback feeling from the severed area to the brain.
- to help prevent atrophy in people in coma by animating them. (Hmm... could it be used to animate the dead...?)
- to teach people handy skills (which is what the article suggests), remotely even.
- as material in sci-fi movies to remote control characters, either to commit he
In Reverse? (Score:2)
That's great, but I'd like to know if there's any chance of doing this in reverse. That is, a non-invasive method of receiving electrical hand signals and converting them to inputs to a computer. Such a device would be much better than the previous idea I've been wheeling out every now and then on /. as a replacement for electrodes in the brain for computer feedback.
Frogs? (Score:2)
Did we start doing this somewhere like 150 years ago with dead frogs? Bruce Lee used this type of electro-stimulation to work out his muscles. All Sony is doing is controlling it with a new control program that makes your hand go to Sony.com and order lots and lots of crappy hardware. :)
Inevitable (Score:2)
excercise (Score:1)
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I'd rather be paralyzed than put my hand's well being into Sony's, umm, hands.
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I don't think you have thought that through.
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I'm quite protective of my body, the mere idea that someone else might be controlling part of it freaks me out to no end. I'm probably at the extreme end of the spectrum here, but I could not see me living, knowing that my existence depends on a machine that is not under my control. Fortunately I only had to go get an operation once, and it took them quite a lot of sedatives to calm me to the point where they could knock me out.
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You do realise how much of your natural body is not under your control already?
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Aside of my vegetative system which I have of course very little control over, I couldn't really point at something that is controlled by some external force. Please elaborate.
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You sir, are an idiot.
Plus you are a liar. After a few months paralyzed in a bed with someone else having to feed you and wipe your ass everyday you would jump at the first doctor that offered a small device to allow you to walk once again.
Go ahead and convince us that you'd lie there for years till you died just to "protect your body".
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Paralyzed people who's muscles can be controlled to a functional state, would be nice.
Perhaps a suit that would enable people to walk. Dunno.
Yeah, its too bad all the 7th graders here decided to trash Sony rather than see the value of this for all the paralyzed people in the world. Even worse are the fully functioning people who insist that if it came to pass that they were paralyzed they would remain so rather than strap on a device that allows them to once again control their own limbs. Such big talk from someone who has never rolled a day in a wheelchair.