Patent for manipulation of nervous system thru TV/Internet

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1088&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

According to U.S. patent 6,506,148 (link to Patent in above link):

Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. ...

<...> For a TV monitor, the image pulsing may be inherent in the video stream as it flows from the video source, or else the stream may be modulated such as to overlay the pulsing. In the first case, a live TV broadcast can be arranged to have the feature imbedded simply by slightly pulsing the illumination of the scene that is being broadcast. This method can of course also be used in making movies and recording video tapes and DVDs.

<...> Certain monitors can emit electromagnetic field pulses that excite a sensory resonance in a nearby subject, through image pulses that are so weak as to be subliminal. This is unfortunate since it opens a way for mischievous application of the invention, whereby people are exposed unknowingly to manipulation of their nervous systems for someone else's purposes. Such application would be unethical and is of course not advocated. It is mentioned here in order to alert the public to the possibility of covert abuse that may occur while being online, or while watching TV, a video, or a DVD.

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Tinfoil Time?

Manipulating the screen to produce shapes that look like Cameron Diaz has a certain effect on my nervous system. So they've already won.

Not a new science, really. From the obvious to the more subtle, they've been at it for years. Does any of it work? Hell, if it didn't we wouldn't still be messing around with the idea, now would we? :)

feelies, movies where you actually feel the action.