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Check this out, Japanese company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has developed a technology that uses human body as a high-speed network. Forget LAN or Bluetooth, meet HAN (Human Area Network).

The transceivers - called RedTacton - uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.

A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver.

The company says that this latest development can transmit data over the surface of the skin at up to 2Mbps. RedTacton-enabled device does not have to be in direct contact with the skin - only within about 20cm.

A person equipped with a sensor can exchange data with another person carrying a sensor by shaking hands, and between a person and a device by touching it, walking on it, or by sitting on it, the company said.

Right now, for those who are a geek tech savvy person, would “beam” their business card over their handheld, PDA devices via infra-red or bluetooth. Imagine if it could be done by just shaking hands. You meet someone on a buisness conference, shake his or her hand and boom, both of you exchange data, his business card data is in your PDA and your on his or her PDA.

This is good for secret agents or spy people to exchange data covertly. If you have watch the movie Aeon Flux, on the beginning you see Aeon walking in a park meeting someone and start kissing, which was actually the guy passing a pill like device to Aeon and she swallows it and the data when up to her brain and she got her mission briefing.

Well if I were to be a secret agent passing important information to my operative, I wouldn’t mind kissing if my operative is Charlize Theron. Odds are the other secret agent would might just be some guy with a black suit, which I would rather just shake his hand.

Visit RedTacton.com for more info on this device

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