Human Body Broadband Networking

This gives a new meaning to the “connection” between two people…

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 plain old cables to connect devices. But NTT, the Japanese communications company, has developed a technology called RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the surface of the skin 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 around with a cable to connect your digital camera to your computer, you could transfer pictures just 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.

[Source: Taipei Times]

Oops, sorry, I didn’t mean to put my hand down there, I was just uploading an mp3 to your, hmmm, hmm, thingie, I mean iPod πŸ˜‰

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Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Mohamed Marwen Meddah is a Tunisian-Canadian, web aficionado, software engineering leader, blogger, and amateur photographer.

3 thoughts on “Human Body Broadband Networking”

  1. Haha! And then we find out all these currents screw around with your body and gives you cancer God knows where. πŸ™‚ I’ll wait for other people to test it out before I try it.

  2. Yeah, lol…

    After other people test it, and you’ve tested it, let me know, so I can try it too πŸ˜›

  3. LOL!!! Tell me when you’ve all tried it out already, just to know what you’ve experienced, but I’d never ever try such a thing!
    And MMM you never fail to shock me with your “rude” comments!!

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