Wireless Local Body Network Soon To Connect All Your Portable Devices

Your own body, arms and fingers, could soon be the key enablers of data exchanges with other people, communication devices and in some cases even with critical components within your own body.

Yes, as i have written here before, your body could soon be the backbone of a broadband personal data network capable of efficiently communicating to your cell phone, MP3 player, digital camera, laptop or printer.

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.

But the great news is that according to NTT and other mainstream news sources the first commercial appearance of this new technology, could happen as early as next year.

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