ABSTRACT
Imagine getting in a car and having it adjust its settings to the way you like them, grabbing a door handle that knows if you are authorized to open it or shaking hands with someone and invisibly exchanging electronic business cards. What if you could walk into a room and connect to a network just by setting your laptop on a table? In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly passé. By then phones will be printed directly on to wrists, or other parts of the body.
Who can imagine that soon our body can be the backbone of a broadband personal data network linking our mobile phone or MP3 player to a cordless headset, our digital camera to a PC or printer, and all the gadgets one carries around to each other? Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. have developed a system that can do these things and others by using your body to create a high-speed computer network called RedTacton.
RedTacton enables the first practical Human Area Network between body-centered electronic devices and PCs or other network devices embedded in the environment via a new generation of user interface based on totally natural human actions such as touching, holding, sitting, walking, or stepping on a particular spot. Similar weak electrical fields can be found around many objects, including those made from metals, plastic, glass, ceramics and liquids, which mean they can also be part of a RedTacton networks.
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 sitting on it.
INTRODUC TION
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. RedTacton uses the minute electric field emitted on the surface of the human body. Technically, it is completely distinct from wireless and infrared. A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver. Physically separating ends the contact and thus ends communication. Using RedTacton, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations according to the user's natural, physical movements. Communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or torso. RedTacton works through shoes and clothing as
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Imagine getting in a car and having it adjust its settings to the way you like them, grabbing a door handle that knows if you are authorized to open it or shaking hands with someone and invisibly exchanging electronic business cards. What if you could walk into a room and connect to a network just by setting your laptop on a table? In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly passé. By then phones will be printed directly on to wrists, or other parts of the body.
Who can imagine that soon our body can be the backbone of a broadband personal data network linking our mobile phone or MP3 player to a cordless headset, our digital camera to a PC or printer, and all the gadgets one carries around to each other? Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. have developed a system that can do these things and others by using your body to create a high-speed computer network called RedTacton.
RedTacton enables the first practical Human Area Network between body-centered electronic devices and PCs or other network devices embedded in the environment via a new generation of user interface based on totally natural human actions such as touching, holding, sitting, walking, or stepping on a particular spot. Similar weak electrical fields can be found around many objects, including those made from metals, plastic, glass, ceramics and liquids, which mean they can also be part of a RedTacton networks.
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 sitting on it.
INTRODUC TION
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. RedTacton uses the minute electric field emitted on the surface of the human body. Technically, it is completely distinct from wireless and infrared. A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver. Physically separating ends the contact and thus ends communication. Using RedTacton, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations according to the user's natural, physical movements. Communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or torso. RedTacton works through shoes and clothing as
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