IF you spend hours downloading songs to your iPod, the days of fiddling around with wires are coming to an end. A Japanese company has discovered that the best cables may be your arms and legs.
According to NTT Laboratories, your whole body is the perfect conductor for electronic data, meaning that information such as music and films could be downloaded in seconds via your elbow.
NTT, and the team of scientists that invented the "Red Tacton" system, envisage a future in which the human body acts as a non-stop conduit for information.
Wireless networks and devices, often hampered by intermittent service, will eventually be replaced, NTT says, by "human area networks".
I wonder if this will be a precursor to leaching memories out of people, or recording their dreams and shit. Pretty funky anyway. Does it actualy use the nervous system or just the whole body?
Quote from K_I_Z_A: so if something as simple as shaking hands exchanges business cards imagine the amount of data you could transfer whilst having sex In my case, around 30-40 kilobytes....I'm terrible in bed, women never remember me lol
Quote from K_I_Z_A: so if something as simple as shaking hands exchanges business cards imagine the amount of data you could transfer whilst having sex
In a somewhat vague effort to un-hijack this thread, if it was to become a proven method of data transfer, then surely a whole new "book" of laws would need to be written to cover privacy etc.