Gawker spots an outdoor ad for the A&E channel that blasts radio-waves that get translated into sounds when they hit your skull. No invasion of privacy there, just the ad industry up to it’s good old ‘creative’ tricks. The say:
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 speaker8212that 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?
Was this crap created by their new agency Venables, Bell & Partners? Leave a comment, and let us know.
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Where is this so I can feel/hear/receive its effects?
December 7th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Isn’t the military testing this type of thing as a crowd control weapon? I seem to remember reading about the use of sonic weapons in Iraq, and how law enforcement agencies here in the states were interested in it’s application for crowd control here.
I’d also think that to deploy a device of this nature, they would have had to have obtained a permit, as the local city/county might be lible for civil damages, along with A&E, the advertiser,the ad board company, the folks that mounted the thing and the building owner.
Perhaps an ad should be taken out across from this one by the local chapter there of the Bar and Court TV that says
“And 73% of our members believe they could win a civil judgement in excess of $100,000 for victims of your sonic weapon….”
December 16th, 2007 at 3:55 pm