The next advance in ringtones could be the BrainTone - a set of frequencies that quite literally hack your brain, making you feel a specific sensation just by listening to the tone. Called entrainment, the technique modifies the electrical activity in your brain through specific sounds that mimic the electrical activity (in the form of soundwaves) associated with certain mental states.

Read on to find out what kind of mental states a BrainTone can mimic.

[Source: forevergeek, bwgen]

BrainTone Generator

The type of mental states that can be generated by this technique include deep sleep, too much coffee, or even having your tooth drilled (although we already have a ringtone that creates this sensation - the Crazy Frog!). And yes, there's also sexual stimulation, sexual simulation, and LSD simulation.

Although no-one has released a BrainTone yet, it's simple enough to do. Simply go to bwgen.com, download the generator for yourself, and pump the sounds into your ear. Shouldn't take too much effort to convert the sounds into ringtones. Then set up your phone to play back a certain BrainTone to whoever's calling. Obviously you'd want to send the tooth being drilled 'tone to your boss, and the sexual stimulation 'tone to your other half (or vice versa, depending on your current boss and other half!!)

I knew it was only a matter of time before mobile phones began to control our minds!.