How fucking cool is this? I’ll come back to it in the morning I hope. The potential for changing life in there is quite astounding…and scary.
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Your body could replace Bluetooth as the new data transfer format of choice. Paul Rubens reports
Thursday March 17, 2005
The Guardian
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.
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