Showing posts with label HAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HAN. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Introducing the Human Area Network (HAN)


Forget LAN or Bluetooth here's a way to turn yourself into a walking talking file transfer machine. Japanese company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has developed technology that uses the human body as a high-speed network. What's more, it also forms a communications link between people and electronic devices.

This is the first viable Human Area Network (HAN) device, enabling fast data transfer between devices using the human body as a conduit. 

The transceivers - called RedTacton - uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.