Researchers at NTT have figured out how to control a person’s posture and sense of balance by placing electrode patches behind the ears that deliver low levels of electric current to the inner ear. They say that the electrodes would be used mainly for creating more realistic simulation games (like actually feeling pulled to the right while making a turn in a driving game), but we suspect that it could also be used for fighting seasickness and, in less scrupulous hands, as an elaborate form of torture.
