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The basic idea is to use the body as the basis for hardware, and the skin-covered surface of your body as an interface. As technologists have discovered, interfaces take up space; why not use your most intimate space to connect.

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To achieve absolute personal identification, the hardware would capture DNA from the user’s body, enabling direct participation in the political and cultural landscape. The technology would link remote users through engagement with their areas of interest...
Users view, test-drive, and select their product from a variety of options, both functional and aesthetic. They also set the lifecycle of the product, to be utilized for a few hours or a much longer amount of time. Once users are satisfied with their specific configurations, they have this fully-functioning circuitry - including all UI-interactive and display functions - “printed” onto recommended areas of their skin. Energy would be pulled from the human body to run the programs. At the end of the day, users would simply wash the Dattoos off, beginning anew the following day.
Although this is a very far-fetched idea, the first steps have already been taken. IBM pioneered research in the area of using a living person's skin as a computer network in 1996 with a system that could successfully transmit data across skin at low speeds. Microsoft was granted a patent in 2004 for "a method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body."

More recently, NTT has developed a technology called RedTacton, which can send data over the surface of human skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps -- the equivalent of a fast broadband data connection. The transmission is achieved by minutely modulating the electrical body field in the same way that a radio station wave is modulated to carry broadcast data.

2007-01-21 09:36:23 · 3 answers · asked by Jewel 3 in Science & Mathematics Biology

Sorry for the redundancy in my question. I typed in Could twice accidentally. lol

2007-01-21 09:37:45 · update #1

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Ugh, sounds awfully Big Brother to me. I saw a thing on TV where they implant these little ID thingies in people (they're also used to ID, like, merchandise going through a warehouse.)

I don't like it. I'd like to be off the grid--I don't want the grid on me! Freaky!

2007-01-21 09:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0 0

not likely... the pink and the ZZ are a giveaway... it would want to be wishful wondering and a delusion in case you had eyewitnesses who went to their deaths confessing it and had fulfilled prophesy and historic sound texts assisting it (psssst like the Bible... properly then you definately;d be onto something) The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by potential of Licona and Habermas outlines astonishing arguments for the resurrection and the unicorn properly... it the stuff of delusion.

2016-10-17 02:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Have you read Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams? He posulates a lot about this sort of thing...

2007-01-21 10:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by Pseudo Obscure 6 · 0 0

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