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Broadband Networking Via Human Skin

Posted by andrew on July 23rd, 2005

NTT, the Japanese communications giant, has recently developed a technology called RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the surface of human skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps — the equivalent of a fast broadband data connection.

To work, a transmitter is attached to a portable device, such as an MP3 player, which then uses the human electrical skin field to send data to another receiving device. The transmission is achieved by minutely modulating the electrical body field in the same way that a radio station wave is modulated to carry broadcast data.

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Photo credit: Giuliana Contaldo

Will this encourage more skin contact among ourselves in future? :)

Source: RobinGood



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not going to use that thing.
yuck !

Why yuck? It’s technology… But of course it doesn’t mean we can use it as a reason to touch every strangers… :D