Hearing voices? You are not losing your mind, it might be advertizing...

[undergroundpanther]

I am disgusted at marketing and advertising.Companies not content with assaulting captive audiences in,trains,light rail,cabs bathroom stalls and urinals with ads,despite all these ads on tv ,radio, movies and covering every available surface..Marketers have begun beaming ads into our own heads,as 'voices '..So much for our cognitive liberty. Inter-cranial hearing it's not a conspiracy theory anymore,folks it is now a marketing tool..

Damn Ceo's and their marketers are invasive pernicious assholes. Ads like this are ethically WRONG,they are intrusive.Attempting to insert themselves into a persons internal dialogs of thoughts.. On

On another side thought..I hope churches NEVER get this technology,for if I was to hear bible shit pumped into my head against my will I would be furious at them,I hate invasion of space advertising agencies and some churches do already..Like calling me,aggressively handing out literature ,pushing me to listen, knocking on my door,all the junk mail, spam,and ads ads ads.

It's only gonna get worse when advertising becomes truly unstoppable,when we can't shut them up,when our minds are assaulted by inter-cranial ads..When is enough enough.I think Enough was passed a LONG,LONG time ago myself. What makes marketers think it's OK to invade MY Mental thought dialog invade that space..EVER? With this technology we will all become a captive audience to these fucking assholes. They know you cannot escape your own skull without killing yourself.The Fuckers!

It's not just a conspiracy anymore!!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your imagination."
http://adage.com/article?article_id=122491

[Lars39]

1. Couple this with holographic technology and we could have the Rapture.

Not on the cheap, mind you, but it's do-able.:D

[Hydra]

6. it could be on the cheap soon enough

consider the costs of computers these days- a wicked system for $1,150? You couldn't buy a tortoise for $3,500-4,500 10 years ago.

Who cares about a show with a guy in his bathrobe waving to skeletons on horseback? I want to skip to the part where all the fundies run off the cliff like the fake behavior we attribute to lemmings.

[undergroundpanther]

19. Yep

I have been saying this fake rapture shit is a potentiality for YEARS.
And yes there are hologram projectors ..and real time editing software for the imaging too.

http://www.eyeliner3d.com/musion_eyeliner_system.html

If there was a push to confuse people so that they are not aware they are in danger from the criminals running the empire this would be a way to do it.The media would eat it up,and the 'sightings' could be tailored to fit with the targeted populace and effect their beliefs.

[Posteritatis]

31. Think we can convince people the Second Amendment applies to HERF guns? (nt)

[Hydra]

2. MK Ultra- it's been done and refined for gov't approved use

screw the advertisers, though. I can't buy your product if you won't give me a job that pays me enough to buy it.

[Skidmore]

3. You can count on them getting it defended as "free speech,"

at which point the perfect counter will be they need to rent my head if they want to use it as a billboard.

[1620rock]

7. Imagine getting Fux Noise in your head 24/7.

[madinmaryland]

10. Ewww. I gotta take a shower after that thought!

[TomInTib]

4. Whaddya wanna bet that they used this with * during the '04 debates?

And all the time I thought they were using a BonePhone.

[flashl]

5. Good point.

"How soon will it be until in addition to the do-not-call list, we'll have a 'do not beam commercial messages into my head' list?"

[Jim__]

8. I think that sucks!

We should be entitiled to some privacy.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. "It's not just a conspiracy anymore!!"

Uh, no, it's just a special kind of speaker. Less intrusive than the other kind, actually.

[LeftCoast]

11. Wait a moment please

Here's the company technology page which explains things quite a bit differently. It's not inside your head. You hear it just like normal sound.
http://www.holosonics.com/technology.html

[Journeyman]

15. Thanks for an alternate view. . .

I read about this the other day, but only saw an article similar to the OP.

[undergroundpanther]

23. every news story breaks

with one person breaking it than it grows"legs".I remember people on DU hoping the Downing Street Memo story would get "legs". Do you think The top underreported news stories from project censored are a load of crap because they got ignored by the'mainstream' media? This entertainment"news" that is still obsessed with Hollywood personalities and neurotic breakdowns of the stars and other trivial bullshit stories that are NOT newsworthy?

[balantz]

12. I was just about to write a thoughtful response

but I got a sudden urge to go shop at Walmart.

[Burma Jones]

13. How soon before Inter-cranial hearing blockers appear on the market?

The market at work........

[suffragette]

14. That should create a new market for these

:tinfoilhat:
to block the damn ads out.

It reminds of that episode in Max Headroom where ads made people explode.

It's a step too far.

Can we not have privacy even inside our own heads anymore?

[Raksha]

16. It should be illegal, because there's unlimited potential for abuse

of this technology. In my never-humble opinion, using it for advertising is already abuse. I don't need the hucksters in my head, and I sure as hell don't need the Bush mafia offering me auditory "suggestions"!

[NashVegas]

18. It's Abuse, Period

Just because the noise is directed at one person at a time makes it no less pollution than if a loudspeaker was used.

[undergroundpanther]

20. Exactly,what it is,Abuse.

advertising and proselytizing piss people off BECAUSE it IS inherently invasive and abusive to a person to invade their private space and annoy or cajole them with crap they do not ask for and do not want..Gas lighting people on the street to pay attention.

http://www.amazon.com/Gaslight-Effect-Survive-Manipulation-Control/dp/0767924452

[liberalmuse]

17. I hate commercials, and do whatever I can to avoid them...

and now they can beam them into our ears? It's not like you can turn the channel when that starts happening. I think that's just atrocious that out of the blue some annoying voice is going to tell me my house is not clean enough. Hell, some of us can almost hear our mother's voices in our heads telling us that. What next? Sensory stimulation? I believe you can stimulate certain centers of the brain with sound, even to the point of inducing deep meditative states. In the future, we'll be walking down the street and experience a full-on orgasm (okay, that's not so atrocious), courtesy of Trojan brand condoms. The possibilities are endless for this kind of technology.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. Couldn't you really go for a Snickers bar right now?

I bet you could

[Bolo Boffin]

22. "I think Bush should be allowed to invade Iran."

"Don't you?"

[Kansas Wyatt]

24. Good thing my reaction is to oppose...

Anytime someone tries to get me to do something they want.

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. "...the company also has tested retail deployments in grocery stores

with Procter & Gamble and Kraft for customized audio messaging. So a customer, for example, looking to buy laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience."

I'm terribly sorry, but when I suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water, buying a box of Tide is usually not my first reaction, y'know?

[Duer 157099]

28. "Clean-up on aisle three!" n/t

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

26. Scary stuff

think about torchering prisoners with say...some Christian music or elevator music 24/7.

[pamela]

27. Damn, that's just plain freaky.

ick

[mtnester]

29. I thought subliminal messaging was outlawed years ago...

so, give it a slightly different technological delivery and call it another name and it is OK?

bleh

[Duer 157099]

30. Hah! to all you tin-foil-hat ridiculers!

Time to invest in Reynolds?

[Duer 157099]

32. I say we use it to broadcast Air America

How'd you like to be walking down the street and suddenly hear Randi Rhodes on your shoulder?

It'd be a GREAT wake-up call for America I think.

We can play this game too.

[undergroundpanther]

33. I like the way you think

Heh..I however do not have the cash to set up counter systems to that shit.dammit.I would if I could.I hope someone out there does care to use these tools to better humanity and destroy abusers of power.

[Blue_Tires]

34. 5th rec

[KamaAina]

35. 6079 Smith W! Turn the telescreen back on at once!

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[rosesaylavee]

36. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

This is invasion of privacy if nothing else.

[Dukkha]

37. reminds me of the “Last Action Hero” ad

a really crappy Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (even by his standards) where they wanted to advertise it by using a satellite billboard that would be visible in the sky 24/7.

[tom_paine]

38. I cannot even say what I am thinking.

:grr: :mad: :grr: :grr:

They go too far. TOO FAR!

[OneBlueSky]

39. have you watched (or tried to watch) network television lately? . . .

the advertising is non-stop . . . every half hour is almost 50% commercials, and even during the programs the ads continue on the bottom of the screen, in the corners, even in product placements in the shows themselves . . . it truly never, ever stops . . .

for me, there's so little worth watching on network tv that it's not much of a problem . . . but for the millions who DO watch, the indoctrination is more than even the strongest minds can possibly resist . . . it is relentless . . .

[cooolandrew]

40. If this is true it won't just be advertisers using it. Although...

...I'll hrdly notice all my friends are inside my head anyway. Just kidding.

[LeftCoast]

41. It took me 3 minutes on Google to debunk this

I can't believe so many people are buying into this BS story.

[Raejeanowl]

42. Consumer As Victim

That is a disgusting new low in involuntary advertising. Invasive, unethical, arguably unconstitutional. A hindrance to both privacy and liberty. And unlike the perennial video surveillance in public issue, it runs counter to any public safety imperative. Imagine a pedestrian being startled at the wrong moment or someone with an already shaky mental health history believing their problem had returned.

[Make7]

43. Why would someone advertise to suggest I burn my neighbors house down? ( n/t )