> Now if there were a gentle way to have the shoes compel walking in a certain direction,.. How about Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), demonstrated by N

> Now if there were a gentle way to have the shoes compel walking in a certain direction,.. How about Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS), demonstrated by NTT in 2005 [1,2]? There's also a GVS implementation using an Arduino [3], so it is ripe for integration, especially given the availability of a GPS shield for the Arduino. An auto-homing human! [1] http://www.semanticmedia-showcase.de/WerkstattSM/Forschung/SiggraphBeispiel/16-maeda.pdf http://www.semanticmedia-showcase.de/WerkstattSM/Forschung/S... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNfBrXYYTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNfBrXYYTc [3] http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,21780.0.html http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,21780.0.html