Subject:  New technology uses body as Network Infrastructure ... (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 21 May 1998 094500 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 06:49:40 -0700
From: Robert Bedard 
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: New technology uses body as Network Infrastructure ...

Roy:

I am sure that you know of people who might be interested in this ...

FYI: A new technology being researched by IBM --

 http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/popups/smart/mobile/html/pan.html
"Another Almaden division deals with types of data already stored.
Continuing a project that began in Neil Gershenfeld's physics group
at the MIT Media Lab, Tom Zimmerman of Almaden's Computer Science division
is working with data sent not across computer systems but across the human
body. His Personal Area Network (PAN) uses a small silicon card that sits
in your back pocket and communicates with various people or machines by
sending a low-frequency, low-power signal through your body. When you
shake hands with someone, your cards could exchange addresses and phone
numbers, for instance. You would only have to touch a telephone to give it
your calling-card number or touch a car door to unlock it. An exercise
machine at Almaden can accept a PAN signal and automatically
begin a regime specific to you."

The above link has some links to other sources of info on this new
technology as well.


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