Re: [NTLK] Human Skin Patent

From: Michael J. Hußmann (michael_at_michael-hussmann.de)
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 10:49:10 PDT

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Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net) wrote:

> Considering I remember reading about an IBM research project 10 years
> ago that
> accomplished exactly this (transmitting data via skin contact, =
specifically
> vCards when people shake hands)

Yep. "Personal Area Networks" (PAN), developed by Thomas G. Zimmerman at
IBM's Almadena Research Center, about ten years ago. I've just checked
an article I wrote about wearable computing in 2001; I knew this was old
stuff. There's a video somewhere on the web showing demonstrating the
vCard transmission via handshake.

- Michael

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