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Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
Under my skin
(send data over skin surface)
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Your body could soon be the backbone of a broadband personal data network
linking your mobile phone or MP3 player to a cordless headset, your digital
camera to a PC or printer, and all the gadgets you carry around to each other.
These personal area networks are already possible using radio-based
technologies, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, or just cables to connect devices. But
NTT, a Japanese communications company, has developed a technology called
RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the skin's surface at speeds of up
to 2mbps – equivalent to a fast broadband data connection.
Using RedTacton-enabled devices, music from an MP3 player in your pocket would
pass through your clothing and shoot over your body to headphones in your ears.
Instead of fiddling with a cable to connect your digital camera to your
computer, you could transfer pictures by touching the PC while the camera is
around your neck. And since data can pass from one body to another, you could
also exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands, trade music files by
dancing cheek to cheek, or swap phone numbers just by kissing.
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