Scientists Might Make A Pill That’ll Give You Photographic Memory [Memory Forever]
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Researchers have discovered that increasing production of a protein called RGS-14 could significantly boost visual memory. They are currently investigating the exact effects on humans, but all I can think is: Photographic memory in pill form. More »
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Magic memory-ridding pills remind me of college, I think.
colloquial_clipsburgh
@tande04: My Banhammer is itchy from yesterday, I still feel the lust for blood. Well, not real blood, just red bytes.
Also, I would like to stop any chance of Gizmodo becoming Engadget.
Stndsh0
@mecha2142: Ha! Haven’t played L4D in ages but thank you for the good memories.
CataclysmicVoid
I just read that article, but now I can’t remember what it was about.
toddalbert
Finally, I’ll be able to remember what I look like
mytoemytoe
I already have photographic memory. If I take one of these pills will I get high-def 3-D IMAX memory?
Complexified
@Stndsh0: Its unapproved. What is there to ban?
Just ignore it and move on.
tande04
@TonyRockyHorror: Performance enhancing drugs is already a very real part of school exams.
There was an article on Giz (maybe io9 I get their random science articles confused sometimes) about just giving them out at the beginning of the year and leveling the playing field.
tande04
Its been a long day and I want to forget about work, oh no, I remembered I took the pills for work so I won’t forget files and paper work on this dead line. I might try and get drunk and see if that will not make me remember.
*Wakes up
NO! I remembered everything I was doing but didn’t know what I was doing!
Mr.DuckSauce
Must have!
Phocis
This is where I wish I paid more attention in college.
I remember there is a drug (bonus points to anyone who knows what its called) that can be administered by injection that help repress memories.
It was be administered to rape victims after that trauma. If it is given within a certain ammount of time, it can help to reduce the shock (and more importantly the memories and incurring mental trauma afterwards).
Damn it, if only I had taken notes!
Borgak_the_Destroyer
@denisnossevitch: +1
Phocis
@00Red: People with photographic memories from the ones I’ve met have often been autistic. I suspect though that there is a lot more going on that results in great memory not vice versa since not all autistics have perfect memory.
im.thatoneguy2
@00Red: I have a photographic memory and I’m fucking crazy. I’m either completely docile, completely full of energy and drinking, or completely angry and punching someone in the face or breaking something. I remember every detail about practically everything, it’s not necessarily limited to what I see. It’s a nightmare. All the happiest people seem to be those with short attention spans and awful memories. If my memory was any better I’d be dead.
Potentaint
@denisnossevitch: depends on how many prescriptions you have
coolkid1717
In other news scientists might make a pill that makes you invisible!
Tvhargon
@TonyRockyHorror: Why? Unless it’s dangerous it would just give people who don’t have as good of memories an equal footing with those who naturally have great memories.
im.thatoneguy2
People who have photographic memories say they essentially live in pain every day. It hard to even grasp how much information we take in at a given moment but then to have to continuously recall it would be torture.
shalegac
Warning! Do not take RGS-14 if you are currently using the internet, or may use the internet. Consult your doctor before starting RGS-14.
RustyO918
Here, take this pill, and in 30 minutes, go look at Tub Girl.
Those poor, poor sonsofbitches.
tomsomething
First this pill, then drug testing for exams in school.
TonyRockyHorror
@12345: A kid that walks in on their parents can recollect it for years and years. Trust me, I walked in on mine 10+ years ago.
benjamoon
This would be very dangerous if every memory was retained for extra time. You’d go blind every time you moved your head outside or in front of a light…
The thing is that we have different levels of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term. Sensory memory is everything that your senses take in (forgotten within a second). With longer sensory memory, looking at a light bulb would mean a lovely streak of light for an unknown amount of time.
This apparently pushes things faster into long-term store. This means that telephone numbers would be much harder to forget, but so would dreams you had last night. Perhaps this would cause confusion as to what is real or fantasy?
jeevesofRKdia
How much of that pill-man is legal?
denisnossevitch
Agreed, there are some situations where this may help, like learning a foreign language, but there are something best left to the Sea of Lost Memories. Like Thanksgiving ’06 with Uncle Albert.
Why, Uncle Albert, why…..
On a different note, can an Editor, or Great Old One, or Supreme Deity rid Gizmodo of the foul scum below me that commented “first”.
Name “Paul TÅ‚uczek” meet my friend, the Banhammer.
Stndsh0
If we are the result of our amassed experiences and the contemplation of said experiences, then we must embrace this technology, for it, quite literally, makes us more human.
Lord_Data
@Shak_0: Brains aren’t as much like hard drives as people tend to think. If you look into people that have true photographic memories they seem to function totally fine.
benjamoon
I wonder how this would affect recollection.
I understand that in mice, in a controlled environment – they can remember a specific thing.
However, in the real world – when we are bombarded with so much visual stimulation…. imagine what would happen if you remembered almost everything you saw !
Sorting through all the needless crap to find the bit of important information might become very difficult ..
SeventhExile Speaks
@Wilky_McBadass: Imagine if a kid walks in on their parents and can recollect it for years afterwards…
12345
I remember reading somewhere (yes, all great posts start that way) that people with photographic memories have a higher incidence of mental disorder. I imagine having to remember/reexperience everything in so much detail could REALLY make your life difficult at times.
00Red
@iScuba: PILLS HERE! GRABBIN PILLS.
mecha2142
DO WANT! Screw studying! Screw misplacing crap all over the place! Read a book once and remember it nearly word for word.
benjamoon
“The only trouble if similar effects occur in humans and if the magic memory pill of my dreams could be created is that there would have to be a counterpart for forgetting.”
Science is *so* on it. It even has a mascot.
[www.toothpastefordinner.com]
BaggerMcGuirk
“Because sometimes there are things you really don’t want to remember all too well or all too long. “
Just wear those glasses that glaze over to prevent you seeing something troubling. (H2G2 FTW)
Given my current lack of memory, I hope I can get this soon. I forget stuff faster than I can make it up.
ian.nai
Strange. I’m repulsed by and attracted to the image.
As for the article, couldn’t this lead to a scenario where your brain just gets crowded with so much random stuff that it gets hard to think?
Shak_0
Dude. This is how zombie invasion plots begin! Have we not learned from pop culture! Zombies!!!
iScuba
“Scientists Might Make A Pill That’ll Give You Photographic Memory”
Sounds like they already know how to do it but are indecisive about if they want to make it
Wilky_McBadass
They extracted the genes of elephants and put it into pill form for human consumption.
ModernBawhair