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Network World Fusion 10/08/02

Well! Seems som Japanese researchers have figured out how to make a 10M bit/sec network using human skin:

The technology, developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and its subsidiary NTT DoCoMo Inc., uses the body's conductivity and adds the smarts of a personal digital assistant (PDA), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.

A device attached to a PDA can send and receive weak electrical signals through people, with human bodies as communications circuits, the paper said, citing sources close to the companies.

Kinda gives new emphasis to the concept of "personal firewalls," I suppose.

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