Communications path by simple touch

By Regine
on February 21, 2005 6:44 PM
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RedTacton is a Human Area Networking technology developed by NTT Docomo, that uses the surface of the human body as a network transmission path. Communication starts when the skin comes in contact with a transceiver and ends with physically separation.

The system works through shoes and clothing as well.

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Potential advantages include:
- services tailored to the individual needs of the user;
- as communication is triggered by natural human actions, there is no need to insert smart cards, connect cables, tune frequencies;
- setup, registration, and configuration information for an user can all be uploaded to a device the instant the device is touched, eliminating the need for the device to be registered or configured in advance;
- tables, walls, floors and chairs can act as conductors and dielectrics, turning furniture and other architectural elements into a new class of transmission medium. For example, you could have instant access to the Internet by placing a laptop onto a conductive tabletop.
- the system could be installed on any locations calling for secure access, such that each secure access could be initiated and authenticated with a simple touch.

Press Release.
Via engadget.

Related: Human Ethernet, augmented reality handshake and Human skin data transmission technology.

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1 Comments:
shadowtheatre
February 22, 2005

Hi Régine, you have such a nice blog, so full of information about so many different subjects!
I was just reading Baudrillard's Simulacres et Simulation, and he writes a lot about the theme of communication, the material world, reality and hyperreality.
Have you read it too?
I admit, it's a dense work, and you can't read everything. It's much better to report on everything!!
Baudrillard's notion of hyperreality is so useful for discussing NTT Docomo's skin information network communication platform!
For example, he writes that reality does no longer exist and we are only surrounded by information and meaningless simulacra which merely "operate" instead of "meaning" something.
NTT Docomo's skin thing personal body network is a perfect illustration of this idea: the real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks and models of control, and it can be reproduced an indefinite numbers of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational. In fact, it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere. In short, it is dribbel, gadgetry, the demise of life!!

Check it out!!! Find it at any bookstore!

Great blog, cheers!

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