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oops..he has done it again
« on: 2004-07-06 05:10:36 » |
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but do you want Bill Gates behind something like ....
The human body as a computer bus
IT SOUNDS like an April Fool's Day joke, but it isn't. Microsoft, that imperialist of the information-technology world, has actually succeeded in patenting the human body as a computer network. 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”.
US Patent 6,754,472 has just been granted to Microsoft.
At the moment, übergeeks who want to create a so-called personal area network (PAN) have to link their personal electronic devices—mobile phones, pagers, personal data assistants (PDAs) and so on—using infra-red or radio signals. What Microsoft is proposing is to use the skin's own conductive properties to transmit the data needed to create such a network. And the firm does not stop at people. A “wide variety of living animals”, it says, could be used to create computer buses, as they are known technically, in this manner.
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2876950
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