Sony files patent for 'SmartWig'

[Animavore]

In memory of CES,

What?!

[mistermack]

I'm a bit confused about what's being patented here.
A patent is supposed to apply to an invention. ie, a non obvious idea that has never ever been advanced before.
Once you have the ability to control electronics or pick up bio information through skin sensors, it's perfectly obvious that you can do that on different parts of the body. It's not an invention to say, ''lets do that with a wig''. It's stating the bleeding obvious. And you can't patent the obvious. That's a fundamental principle of patents.

[Svartalf]

Technically, it's not a patent, it's an excuse to sue anybody with a similar idea and useSony's weight to crush them under law costs.

[JimC]

In memory of CES,

What?!

His absence from the forum, not him shuffling off this mortal coil...

[pErvinalia]

How do you know he's not dead?

[JimC]

How do you know he's not dead?

I like to think of him as being in a state of quantum indeterminacy in terms of life/death...

As long as we don't open his box, it will all be OK...

[Mysturji]

I'm a bit confused about what's being patented here.
A patent is supposed to apply to an invention. ie, a non obvious idea that has never ever been advanced before.
Once you have the ability to control electronics or pick up bio information through skin sensors, it's perfectly obvious that you can do that on different parts of the body. It's not an invention to say, ''lets do that with a wig''. It's stating the bleeding obvious. And you can't patent the obvious. That's a fundamental principle of patents.

I think it's the hairstyle they're patenting.