Microsoft's very personal area network
By Peter Rojas 
posted Jun 24th 2004 1:40AM
posted Jun 24th 2004 1:40AM
This definitely isn't going to do anything to mitigate all the Borg jokes, but Microsoft has patented a method for
turning human skin into a network that can transmit both power and data in a (very) personal area network. Which means
of course that when you make out or hold hands with somebody you now have to worry about getting computer viruses in
addition to the real ones.
PS - We should note NTT DoCoMo developed
something similar a while
back.
[Thanks, Mike]
I've read about the idea quite a while ago. It was only experimental research then, and obviously no one thought it might be worth patenting. Now M$ took the patent for it ... another legal theft of an idea.
Great beloved patent system, stay the fuck away from Europe ... we still have a chance here ... let's hope those guys in Brussel don't blow it again ...
IBM had this Idea 10 Years ago...
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/pan/pan.html