Bringing William Gibson books and the Matrix just a little closer to reality, Sony nailed a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.

That’s right, you geeky fucks. You don’t even need surgery to get the jack implated into your head (you would have done it anyway, daveb sympathizes).

The technique, achieved by shooting ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce “sensory experiences” such as smells, sounds and images has a variety of applications outside of the video game and entertainment industry, not that you really cared.

Since the sensory data is beamed directly into the brain, images could be sent to the blind from cameras they’d wear. What the cameras were streaming would bypass their dead eyes and hit their brain directly, effectively making them no longer blind. The same could apply to deaf people and other such impaired individuals.

Sony researcher Thomas Dawson described it as “The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex. No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds.”

Is that some cool-ass shit or what? Daveb will be first in line once that shit is mass-produced. It damn well better be during his lifetime, too. He’s a big Matrix Online junkie (sever:”linenoise“, name:”deepnutz“), but fuck that, he wants the real thing!