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- hiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hmm, already using my body as a storage device for turkey, beer and chocolate but I feel a format coming on
- HiddenS3crets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was interested until the last picture
"... install this under the skin ..."
Screw that =O - cockbadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am very interested in this japanese dating technology.
- kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31. so if there was something like hand across america again, we'd have a wicked WAN?
2. would a simple hug mean "hax0rz" or would it boost the bandwidth?
3. can anyone else think of rediculous questions to ask? - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is cool. it now means i can use my wang to connect to the internet and download porn!
and who doesn't wanna have porn travelling through their genitals at 2mbps? :D
+digg - lostngone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't have a date last night so I was in a high speed loopback all night
- linker3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hiro: Better a format than a core dump!
- MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How reliable is this? The human body is constantly changing and it seems like that would dirupt the electrical fields (and thus the signal) very easily. I'll just stick to thumb drives. If I want to tansfer data through me, I'll have flash chips installed under my skin. I'll even have a USB port in the back of my neck.
- cmirza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember seeing something that IBM had developed a few years ago where you wore a special type of shoe, and when you shook hands with someone else with the special shoe, data was exchanged between the two people through their bodies and stored in their respective shoes. Same principle.
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lets all hold hands and form a network!
- NeoTechni, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2this would be perfect for wireless headphones
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always liked this idea, but we already have technology that works in this problem-space; without having to hold onto stuff constantly (we call it "wireless"). The implications of this are probably more useful for creating "private area networks" between two or more people, for providing an extra layer of security.
Kinda brings new meaning to the term "handshaking" doesn't it?
(old news, no actual product, no digg) - jasonhazel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3how much bandwidth is require to transfer a date?
oh, and this is old news. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My wife always uses up all my bandwidth.
- Darek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This has to end up giving you skin cancer or worse
- kaz928, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Didn't they use something like this in Metal Gear Solid on the PS1? I think they called a Personnal Area Network, but it sounds pretty similar.
- feross, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So how do you prevent someone from downloading your brain?
- bastawhiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So lets say some guy with a pacemaker gets one of these. He uses it to connect his mp3 player to his headphones. Will his heart start jamming out to Brittney Spears?
- bastawhiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I believe this violates one of Microsoft's patents.
No, really. I'm serious. - Rjx_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks like microsoft already got a patent on it back in 2004 (or at least something pretty similar):
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=6754472.WKU.&OS=PN/6754472&RS=PN/6754472
"Methods and apparatus for distributing power and data to devices coupled to the human body are described. The human body is used as a conductive medium, e.g., a bus, over which power and/or data is distributed." - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess my gf will be using up all the bandwith : )
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tranfer information from my body at a high-rate of speed least 3 times a day, sometimes more.
- coachace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"how much bandwidth is require to transfer a date?"
My bandwidth is about 36 inches. No, wait, that's my belt length. - moshguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Alright! One step closer to being a cyborg! I can't wait.
- etherdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bogousity quotient very high.
- disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I see this more as a way to create a mini lan for portable devices than creating a true PC lan. Say you have a mobile phone on your hip and an mp3 player in your pocket. You could send an MP3 to your phone to use as a ringtone. Or if you have a camera instead of a phone, you could transfer an image to your phone to use as a background. Simple stuff like that.
Somehow I don't see it working out as a true lan, i.e.: using your body to bridge two computers. How are you going to connect each of those computers to your body? - Abx0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to download Stephen Hawkings Brain, kthx. Along with the parts of Einstein's going around.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1All your date are belong to us.
Die spammers - avaag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You people need to get a sense of humor or something. The caption about implanting under the skin is obviously a joke. It wasn't written by the manufacturer.
- natalvc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Check out the caption under the last pic at http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1061447,curpg-3.cms
"This what you need to install under the skin."
O...k... - ke4roh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whither the links I just submitted?
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2001/Easy_Racer_Team.htm
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2005/speedchallenge-2005.htm - Digital.Totem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No digg, I'm waiting for my direct to brain input jack.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can transfer amazing amounts of data at high-speed using my body already. Its called "Sneaker-netting" and has been around for awhile.
- Crazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not Japanese!
Notice the date on the article: 1996
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/pan/pan.html - Vektuz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kutsune818: Too true.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a guy with a backpack full of burned DVD's... - surfing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0My girlfriend already transfers date at high-speed "blah blah blah..."
- LinuxGuy1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0NO! Thank you. I would not want to be touching stuff or people all the time just to transfer data. I mean unless they are good looking women of course... :-)
LinuxGuy - DBA for http://www.PriceComparison.com - 808kick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Christ, William Gibson was right about everything...
- ke4roh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Duh! It's a tandem bicycle from the World Human-Powered Speed Challenge! You can go up to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h). You and your babe can cruise!
- revka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1wow... you guys just now worry about spelling in digg posts? either youre not very astute, or you just reached boiling point.
digg, leave it to the japanese to put us closer to a johnny neumonic reality - syuusuke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0awesome, i cant wait to simulate myself using the internet
- pyroh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0woo hoo!! I love to transfer dates...
- HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Too bad Microsoft patented this idea a few years ago...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4"DONT DIGG THIS.
IF SOMEONE CAN NOT BE BOTHERED TO CHECK THEIR SPELLING -***** THEM
report this story"
Seconded.
In any case, you need to implant ***** under your skin, then it uses *gasp* "several hundred milliwatts of power". that's like saying, "Look honey, I got .01 centislices of pie!", AKA *****. - battlecat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"DONT DIGG THIS.
IF SOMEONE CAN NOT BE BOTHERED TO CHECK THEIR SPELLING -***** THEM
report this story"
co-sign - thewordwasgod, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2DONT DIGG THIS.
IF SOMEONE CAN NOT BE BOTHERED TO CHECK THEIR SPELLING -***** THEM
report this story - John184, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0wow, to think that soon I can electrocute myself using the Internet.... Can't wait.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I'm going to say this for those of you who are total dumbasses and can't find your way around a single spelling error.
date = data - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Cool..
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