http://search-engines-web.com/ writes: “
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm
US Patent 6,754,472, issued to the company on June 22nd, is for a “method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body�.
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http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156286
Microsoft patents human body network“
Human networking conduit ‘not a totally batty idea’, says professor
Dinah Greek, vnunet.com 29 Jun 2004
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Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a technology that could one day harness the natural electrical conductivity of the human body and skin to form a networking conduit.
The patent for “a method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body” was filed in 2000 and awarded last week.
Microsoft proposes in the application that it would be possible for a variety of devices, such as a keyboard or separate speakers for a watch, PDA and radio, to be connected by electrodes to a power source carried on the body.
Data and audio signals could be transmitted over the same power signal, and Microsoft suggested that the increasing number of portable devices people wear or carry with them make the idea plausible.
The technology could significantly reduce the need for multiple power sources such as batteries, and reduce the need for output devices such as speakers to a single source.
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