Yesterday, I went to J8 to walk around with kenneth, shi jie, sarge, taru and choon wing. Shijie went into Harvey Norman to buy earphones, and the rest of us followed. The circumstances was such that choon wing saw us looking at stuff, so he looked at other stuff while waiting. The rest were waiting for choon wing to finish looking at his stuff and so we looked at other stuff. Basically we were watching Simpsons, and testing a home theatre system.

At the home theatre place, shi jie happened to ask something about sub woofers. We explained that sub woofers is to enhance the bass. Then I mentioned that there is a special chair that can be connected to appliances to create the effect of a bass without disturbing others. Someone questioned the effectiveness of such a system. I suggested that perhaps they could use electrical impulses connected to skin to give the effect of low frequency vibrations, something like uZap. Then shi jie mentioned an Osim product that supposedly massages the foot, but when you step on it, it would cause your foot muscles to twitch in such a way that it feels like a cramp. Contemplating on the fact that electrical impulses can control our movement, we wondered if we can use movement to control electrical impulses. We mentioned stephen hawking, who twitches his finger to say things, with the help of a voice synthesizer, but with current technology, he can control the device with his mind. Sarge stated that there would be a need to implant a device into his brain for it to work. I was wondering out loud that it would be damn cool if we could mind control very cool machines or robots. Then shijie said that mind control might be dangerous since others might also control our mind. I dismissed this, since mind control doesn't work both ways.

Then kenneth asked a very important question, "How did we get from speakers to mind control?"