Who you callin' Schizophrenic???
August 1, 2002 12:23 PM   Subscribe

Who you callin' Schizophrenic??? I'm not crazy damnit! They're pointing their sound beams at me, I swear!
posted by kingmissile (16 comments total)
 
Can you say ultrasonic rifle with a variable directional arc from pinpoint accuracy to mass crowd effect?
posted by linux at 12:31 PM on August 1, 2002


And I'm not crazy either!
I'm bipolar!
And I'm not crazy either!
posted by nofundy at 12:35 PM on August 1, 2002


vending machines that call out to you as you walk by

Someone make it stop. Please.
posted by evanizer at 12:42 PM on August 1, 2002


It's so great to see which ailments are PC to make fun of on metafilter!
posted by geoff. at 12:42 PM on August 1, 2002


,b>That man is the devil.
posted by lilboo at 12:43 PM on August 1, 2002


From the article: This is big audio dynamite—possibly the biggest breakthrough since modern speakers were conceived 77 years ago—and Norris knows it.

Heh. Nice.
posted by ColdChef at 12:49 PM on August 1, 2002


cool. I remember thinking, as I watched MINORITY REPORT how they had billboards inside stores that seemed to speak directly to the Tom Cruise character, but I wondered how something like that would work, since there were lots of other people around him...

It's a brave new world of advertising opportunity we live in.
posted by crunchland at 1:00 PM on August 1, 2002


ColdChef...

big audio dynamite

i had tickets for the voice-problems-cancelled tour. Still bums me out. I bet the guy who wrote that got a good laugh out of it. I know i did.

1985
The first single is released, "The bottom Line". The single "E=mc2" is released shortly afterwards with the lyrics based on the films by Nic Roeg. Generally credited as the first rock hit to use sample techniques.
The innovators always get lost in time.

ah, anyways...directional audio is cool i guess, but could i sue someone if i accidently step into someones cone-o-brittney and i have emotional damage?
posted by th3ph17 at 1:05 PM on August 1, 2002


"It's so great to see which ailments are PC to make fun of on metafilter!"

I'll bet you despise Callahan, eh?

Question: what's with all the "box" characters appearing in people's messages these days (ie. ColdChef's, above)?
posted by five fresh fish at 1:37 PM on August 1, 2002


what's with all the "box" characters appearing

a)secret symbols of the new mefi elite
b)posting not supporting all characters, discussion in Metatalk.
posted by th3ph17 at 2:05 PM on August 1, 2002


I'm was willing to believe Norris might have something, til I saw that hairstyle. It's like James Trafficant with a bad dye job. How brilliant or successful does a late middle-aged man have to be before he realizes that hair color -- especially cheap henna -- looks stupid on men?
posted by Faze at 2:14 PM on August 1, 2002


I'll bet you despise Callahan, eh?

Not to mention Greg "Fuck the Disabled" Walloch, to boot.
posted by chuq at 3:48 PM on August 1, 2002


Projected sound...seems like a certain Batman Beyond villian had better call his lawyer...
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:07 PM on August 1, 2002


It's so great to see which ailments are PC to make fun of on metafilter!

Well, I'm bipolar and I thought it was funny. (Hey, maybe someday I'll be schizophrenic!). Sometimes a bit of humor helps leaven serious issues.

Seriously, proliferation of technology like this is definitely going to cause more trouble for people suffering from true, life-destroying paranoia (and their therapists). The psychiatrist will no longer be able to truthfully say "no, they *can't* beam messages into your head" once the darn thing is demonstrably functional.

All I wanted was a pepsi.
posted by beth at 7:07 PM on August 1, 2002


Ah, but those suffering from "true, life-destroying paranoia" will now have someone to sue, should this come to pass. "But your Honour, the pop machine TOLD me to do it!" And what of the blind? They'll think a real person is suddenly talking to them. I think many people won't want these in public places.

Which means I can't see many advertisers going for this. I work in advertising, and the trade publications have written about how all of the "noise" created by advertising on anything and everything is diluting the messages. They're already seeing a backlash from fed up consumers. But for use at trade shows, events, etc.... yeah, it could have applications.

You have to admit, if you owned one of those you could have some real fun, real evil fun, with it.
posted by Salmonberry at 8:02 PM on August 1, 2002


Roses Are Red
Violets Are Blue
I'm Schizophrenic
And So Am I
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:33 PM on August 1, 2002


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