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NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology

Posted by timothy on from the closer-to-fruition-since-last-mention dept.

kvsnut writes "I4U is reporting about NTT's research project called RedTacton - It 'safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.' There is a pretty interesting site (uses flash) setup to showcase the technology. If you want to jump to a non-flash overview, try here. It be cool if I could sync my Treo (I'm saving for) by just touching a cradle (or heck the PC)."

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  1. Re:"safely"... by RabidChicken · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hate to break it to you, but you have thousands of "radio waves" (actually consisting of many different frequencies, there's nothing magic about radio) going through your body like it or not. If you can prove there's something wrong, then by all means, tell us, with a link, to a peer-reviewed source.

  2. Re:Well... by Entropius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not for its given bandwidth at its given range, however.

    Contact across the skin implies a range of ~1 meter; at that range the required emitted power for a clear wifi signal is on the order of microwatts.