"Simsense: Hardware or programs that enable a person to experience
what is happening (or has happened) to another person. Creates
simulated sensations by stimulating the Occipital Lobe of the brain."

Sony patents direct brain input: In what could be more marketing ploy
than innovation, Sony has patented a method for directly manipulating
parts of the brain to allow computers to simulate sensory experiences.

Sony's idea is to use beams of ultrasound to penetrate the skull and
stimulate specific brain areas involved in receiving or processing
sensory information.

If appropriate parts of the brain could be targeted, and if the way
in which the neurons process and code conscious experience could be
understood, the technology is, in principle, feasible.

These are two very big 'ifs' however, and each describe two of the
biggest problems in contemporary neuroscience. Indeed, some doubt
whether the latter is possible at all.

So, this is probably not something you might find attached to your
games console in the near future.

Link <http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624944.600> to
story from newscientist.com

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