Reuters reports that Sony has been granted a patent for technology that will theoretically send sensory experiences directly into the brain..... hmmmm I wonder what they're going to call it?  I might just pass on this tech. However you can get more info on this below.

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Television sets as the medium for playing watching movies or playing video games may someday be a method of the past. Sony has been granted a patent for technology that theoretically sends sensory experiences directly into the brain, reports Reuters.

According to the patent, a pulsed ultrasonic signal is used to alter the neural timing in the cortex. It goes on to say, "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."

Sony researcher Thomas Dawson was granted the patent. An article in New Scientist magazine reports no experiments have been conducted using the patent's theories. In the story, Niels Birbaumer, neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told the publication he found the patent plausible.

Any practical application of video games being transmitted into people's brains is years off. The patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us," says Sony.