Digital Drugs: Legal Pleasure or Deadly Consequences?

Several technologies exist today which can change people's inner feelings. If you want to use such technologies, all you need to have is a computer and stereo headsets. There even are developers who identify this new technology as "legal, not harmful substitute for real narcotic substances".

In the last few years, new services are widely discussed which are sold, in commercial reasons, by several different companies from different countries. One of them is "I-doser". It is engaged in selling special audio tracks and while listening to these tracks equivalent of various dugs effects can be felt. And there are lots of them to choose from: heroin, LSD, marijuana. In this case, user needs just a computer and stereo headset, collection of "dozes" and a computer program to recreate them. So, does this mean I can get "high" using a computer, headphones couple and a couple of audio files? At first this might seem stupid. But it is not so simple after all. These technologies have an effect in some extent but it is not clear what are their capabilities and is it totally safe. Scientists still cannot come to an agreement.

Digital drugs have an effect on human through binaural beats. It is a complicated acoustic phenomenon. Scientists are still researching. Binaural beats cannot be called digital drugs or the other way around. It would be not correct. "I-doser" and other products are just one of the spheres that use this technology - nothing more and nothing less.

In order to fully understand the effect of binaural beats, you should listen carefully to the singing of a choir or orchestra. When people's voices or instrumental sounds merge altogether, you can clearly hear slowing of the tone which is pulsating in a unique frequency.

So, do we really need "digital drugs"? Some people would have a clear opinion, others just will not bother. Despite all of the possibilities and some controversial that binaural beats have, people cannot use them purposefully yet. Our ancestors lived a happy and rich life without stimulating their brain with electromagnetic impulses. And after all, brain is not just some device which can be returned if broken. Brain should work for us a long time and it is better not to mess with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats