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Human Body Network Gets Fast
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Oct 20, 2003 @ 10:30pm |
 Coolness: 686270 | Human Body Network Gets Fast
Technology Research News October 17, 2003 The human body is capable of many things, including acting as an information conduit—quite literally. Researchers from NTT Docomo Multimedia Labs and NTT Microsystem Integration Labs in Japan have demonstrated a 10-megabits-per-second indoor network that uses human bodies as portable ethernet cables. The network, dubbed ElectAura-Net, is wireless, but instead of using radio waves, infrared light, or microwaves to transmit information it uses a combination of the electric field that emanates from humans and a similar field emanating from special floor tiles. The network is faster than commercially available personal area networks like the 1-megabit-per-second Bluetooth radio wave system, and tops the 4-megabits-per-second infrared standard set by the Infrared Data Association (IrDA). The system could eventually provide high-speed wireless communications indoors among portable electronic devices whose positions constantly change. The researchers' transceiver transmits data by oscillating the electric field surrounding the device. When the electric field that naturally emanates from a person intersects the electric field of the nearest tile transceiver, oscillations in one field are transmitted to the other. The researchers presented the work at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group Graphics (Siggraph) 2003 conference in San Diego, July 27 to 31. The research was funded by NTT DoCoMo and NTT. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Mon Oct 20, 2003 @ 10:50pm |
 Coolness: 239300 | really nothing new in the findings...the huamn boady is in its purest form just energy. As with most forms of energy it can be trasfered or shared....or i could be a raving idoit that can not spell?
Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Oct 20, 2003 @ 10:54pm |
| Coolness: 686270 | Yeah, but it's still pretty cool that humans and floor tiles will be able to be used as a wireless networc connection.. :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Mon Oct 20, 2003 @ 10:56pm |
| Coolness: 239300 | i would hate to around when there is a systen crash...ZAP!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Tue Oct 21, 2003 @ 12:04am |
 Coolness: 149495 | wow... did it mention the cancer rate among testers? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Tue Oct 21, 2003 @ 3:14am |
 Coolness: 194705 | sounds cool and all, but is it just me or is any technology affecting one's personal energy field (or even piggybacking off of it) extremely sketchy??
cancer or no cancer, i'd let other people use it for at least 10 years and see what happens before i switch to one :b |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Oct 21, 2003 @ 3:31am |
| Coolness: 686270 | You wouldn't really have a choice. :) Walk into an environment with it working and your part of the network. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Tue Oct 21, 2003 @ 3:32am |
| Coolness: 194705 | Giger Meters markII, here I come :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus replied on Tue Oct 21, 2003 @ 1:12pm |
 Coolness: 121715 | they discovered a new way to make electricity
(thats my science talk for the year) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Toltech replied on Wed Oct 22, 2003 @ 6:38am |
 Coolness: 146100 | they discovered a new way to make electricity
(thats my science talk for the year) that was great :lol |
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