lol http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12780383-13762,00.html This shows there is something wrong with the current patent system when Sony has no prototype, has done no testing at all, and takes an idea they didn't create and patented it. I wonder what is next...Microsoft patenting the holodeck or the transporter from Star Trek? I'm gonna see if there's a patent on that flux capacitor stuff...
eh? they did not patent the matrix but an idea to stimulate brain cells to bring people & technology closer to a state like the matrix (the actual use of the matrix looks to have been done by the person writing the article and not sony and the pantent it self). You also very well know once a real transporter is invented (or at least a proper method for it) a company will file a pantent on it. It's just common sense (specialy in a world where owning the rights to something matters). --edit-- Sorry New Scientist is the one who started the matrix reference.
hahahaha, I think I'll patent this great idea I had which will never become reality in our life times. What is it? you ask. Well,..... you'll just have to wait and see. Yakumo
Well as patents only last 2 decades, it will expire long before we die (hopefully) They have actually got a "real" transporter, but it can only teleport photons, so a step closer, but still a million miles from being anything near useful.
still, I didnt know you could actually patent an idea without any research or solid technology behind it. I can patent a device that produces food out of air by simply reading your brain waves and relaizing your desires.
Their pantent looks to have some fesability behind it though. It does not look to be a "pulled out of the ass" pantent.
Reminds me of something that Microsoft did last year: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jun/bpd20040624025708.htm
there you have to ask Johnny Vodka cause hes trying to get the patent on the flux compensator and when thats done you can travel backwards in time and file for the looking at videogames patent =)
The transporter was invented in Austrialla in 1997, and at the moment it can only transport photons, using quantum entanglement (whereby the original photon is destroyed but an exact duplicate is made at the same time in a different location.) So if they ever get it to a point where you could transport a person, that actual person would be "killed," but an exact duplicate down to the atomic level would be created in a different place. It would be "you," but you would only be made of half of the original matter that you once were. At least that's the gist of it I think. I actually still have a newspaper article on it somewhere.
Surely you'd not have any of the matter that was you before, if you got transported in that manner from the UK to Australia, for example. There's no actual matter transportation going on, it's just data. Kind of an interesting question though - who thinks that the person coming out the other end is a different person to the one going in? Did they die? I'd say they were the same. Would be screwed up if the "destruction" bit failed and you met an exact clone of yourself...
That transporter thing raises a while boatload of Ghost In The Shell-esque questions. But speaking of patents, just wait until I patent breathing. You guys are all SOO screwed. That article writer doesn't seem to be the sharpest tack in the box, either - from the brief snippets about Sony's plan, it sounds a lot more like Gibson's matrix than the movie of the same name. Of course, you have the whole ripoff aspect, but I won't get into that. "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators. . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.â€
