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Broadband Networking Via Human Skin

“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.”

It’s certainly interesting, and I’m sure it could have potentially useful applications, but the whole idea just sounds a little…. filthy to me; I can envision a scenario in which some unfortunate person accidentally emails naked photographs of themselves to their parents/boss/priest/etc just by touching their Blackberry, webcam and/or genitalia in the wrong order - but that’s probably just because I have an over-active imagination