Schizophrenia Is The New Ad Gimmick - this is some sick shit!

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The Future Schizophrenia Is The New Ad Gimmick
Walking westward on Prince St. between Mulberry and Mott Streets, I heard a woman's voice in my head whispering, "Who's there? Who's there?" Not like I "heard" a woman's voice like when I wear flared jeans with skinny shoes and I "hear" a woman's voice in my head say, "Wait, you've got to be kidding?" but like an actual woman's voice in my head. This usually means I've had a psychotic break.

But! Then I noticed that, above a billboard for some A&E show called Paranormal State were some speakers that looked like hypersonic sound beams, a device which uses your skull as a speaker—that is, it transmits soundwaves that resonate against whatever surface they hit.

So when they hit your head, it sounds like the call is coming from the inside the brain-house.

The billboard says 73% of Americans believe and I'm assuming that that means 73% of Americans believe in ghosts. So if that's true, why try to convert the skeptical/not crazy 27% by beaming voices into their heads? That's just greedy. Also it leads to a lingering sense of serious mental violation. 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?

http://gawker.com/news/the-future/schizophrenia-is-the-new-ad-gimmick-329133.php

[ThomCat]

1. Okay, that's really invasive.

I don't want anyone using my skull as a speaker without my permission.
x(

[groovedaddy]

2. Is this stuff legal!?!

This is absolutely insane.

[RedCappedBandit]

3. Uh, wtf

Not cool, imo..

[Greyskye]

4. damn.

Is every single dystopian science fiction gadget that I've ever read about going to come true in my lifetime?

[VenusRising]

5. That's just wrong!!

:wtf:

I can't even imagine the kind of problems that could cause to real schizophrenics. Not good.