BodyCom™ Technology provides a secure communication channel using the human body:
Microchip’s BodyCom™ Technology is a short-range, low-data-rate communication solution for securely connecting to a wide range of wireless applications. Activated by capacitively coupling to the human body, the system communicates bidirectionally between a centralized controller and one or more wireless mobile units. Intra-body communication occurs utilizing the human body as the transmission medium.
I wonder what the long term health effects are of using the body as a transmission medium are.
use 415V as the supply, then the long-term effects will be zero …though the short term effects might be a bit nasty!
Just a few years ago this would have been an April Fools joke….
I wonder if it can communicate over a handshake….. or other forms of human contact.
I could unlock my car, send business card to colleague (when shaking his/her hand), use it for building access control or buy a coke from vending machine… Cool.
This gives new meaning to virus protection.
look up Mikes teardown of camera pill on YT
So now my hand phone may communicate with anything I touch without my knowing about it. To stop it, I try using gloves. But then, I’m arrested for defeating the System. Apple is going to love this… Our only hope is that the likes of Apple and Microsoft have covered this concept in multiple (and trivial) patents – so they end up fighting each other in court for years (cost of which is passed on to the consumers). The only winner in this scenario are the corrupt and greedy Trial Lawyers. Sigh…