Microsoft 'patents human skin'

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Nightstalkers

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Microsoft has reportedly succeeded in patenting human skin as a new kind of network.
InSourced claims recently awarded US Patent No. 6,754, 472 is a 'method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body'.
The patent, it says, is part of a new plan to link together several devices using skin as a connector.
As an example, Microsoft says it would be possible to have just one speaker for a person's watch, PDA, and portable radio, if they were all connected to that speaker through skin.
It adds that different devices could be powered from a single power source strapped to the skin.
Each would be driven by multiple power supply signals working at different frequencies, and data and audio signals could also be transmitted over that same power signal.
The power source and devices would be connected to the body via electrodes.
 
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Tabasco

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Great we're just one step closer to turning human beings into freakin' robots.

Yes thank you Microsoft for your knew line of Human radios

This is the stupidest oink ever....

Oh and then we'll find out it causes cancer and some other stupid crap like that.....try to find Mr. Gates to sue his oink then.....
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if the first few "tests" come out saying that the test subjects were reduced to human barbeque.


However, I do like the computer in a persons clothing idea going on over at MIT....

Don't ask where I get my info, you don't wanna know.
 
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mythosx

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i think that patent is only for the method of using human skins as a conducter...I got a buddy in the patents office. He's been telling me all the weird stuff they get since they allowed methods to be patented. Im sure any of you guys if you really wanted to could submit a patent for sticking a pencil up your bum. He said some one has the rights to nailing boots to a merry go around as an auto oink kicker. Very very weird.
 
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Notepad

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Sounds like a great idea. It happens a lot, btw.

Anybody who's ever used a "portable radio" that didn't have an antenna was probably unaware that their own body was the antenna. Whoa! :eek: I use my portable radio all the time when hiking and have no problem with being the receptor of signals for my little music box.

This concept doesn't sound much different. What it sounds like is along the same lines--harmless little signals and currents travelling through the human body as effortlessly and harmlessly as our own bioelectric signals pass around.

I like the idea very much. If only they could have these devices be powered by endothermic energy (body heat) then they'd have some great stuff going. Imagine a watch that never needed new batteries. Or a pager. Or a low-resolution digital display cell phone. Etc...

As for the idea of outside signals passing through your body...you don't even need to be hooked up to a machine or radio to have that. It happens all the time to all of us. Electromagnetic waves from the earth and our own electric devices (TVs and computer monitors produce the most common floods of these), radiation from natural sources such as the Sun, radar-style waves from things such as microwaves, communications signals for TV stations and radios also pass every which way through everything around us--including us, and the list can go on and on.

What really is so scary about just one more use of our body, and one more type of signal passing through our skin?
 
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Nightstalkers

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This is just one way of doing it. You also have the chance of going the way of biotechnology, but it seems that has been put off because genetic engineering is slightly banned in most places.


Yes, if you got good enough with genetic engineering you could create some little critter to act as your radio.


There are many ways to reach the same levels of advancement, take Russia for example. You have a bunch of hard working folks living in a cold place during the winter. Their economy is pretty run down from the cold war days, yet they still manage. A few years back US scientists had the chance to study one of their aircraft, low and behold they found that they were still using vaccum tube technology.

Okay, now you all remember the huge mothers of a radio you see in antique stores that still use the vaccum tubes... But a Mig fighter using vaccum tubes that are advanced to a point of being about as good as microchips is a little creepy.
 
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JayEb333

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i may seem crazy, but i don't think sending electricity through human skin seems like a very good idea. a little bit might be fine, but i'd imagine something like that would have an effect on you if you've been using it for years. just a theory.

seems to be about as good an idea as gillette's new vibrating razor. Moving blades! Right next to your face! BAD IDEA!
 
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Reverend Love

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How do you guys think your nervous system works?

I'm with SeFRo, all they're doing is applying nature's already brilliant system to modern technology. Which btw is how a lot of the new really interesting technologies are developed. Take your idea, see if occurs naturally in nature and attempt to copy it if it does.
 
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JayEb333

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granted, the nervous system uses electricity already, but it's in a state of perfect equilibrium. just because it already uses the stuff doesn't mean we should shoot more of it through ourselves.
 
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mythosx

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dont worry its just a far fetched idea...It isnt going to happen for a while. no one is going to be shooting any electricity through anywhere.. If they can crack it, It will be in a long time. Do you have any idea what happens you shoot electricty throught your body? Your muscles tighten.
 
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Nightstalkers

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Muscles react to electrical stimuli, and you can also do a number of a job on the human mind. Studies have already shown that you can subject the human mind to electromagnetic interference, and it will cause the recipient to go through a "religious feeling."

Biotech is also another answer, engineering people with the same such technology... But mainly this hairbrained idea Microsoft is pushing towards will lead to the Microtech computers.
 
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mythosx

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I'd like to see the research on that electromagnetic stuff nightstalker. I haven't heard anything about that.

Biotech is going the other way I think. Biotech currently is a race to patent as much genetic code as possible, rather than the infusion of man and machine.
 
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Nightstalkers

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Originally posted by mythosx
I'd like to see the research on that electromagnetic stuff nightstalker. I haven't heard anything about that.

Biotech is going the other way I think. Biotech currently is a race to patent as much genetic code as possible, rather than the infusion of man and machine.
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You misunderstand the concept completely, man is a machine already. You have biological systems, and technological systems. Of course there are other ways, but I only deal in the two idyllic systems that are presently possible for the human race to envelop.
 
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Nightstalkers

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Maybe I could patent the cure for AIDS..... Nah, I'd prolly get screwed outta the proceeds.
 
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mythosx

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Originally posted by Nightstalkers
Maybe I could patent the cure for AIDS..... Nah, I'd prolly get screwed outta the proceeds.
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I think we do have the cure for aids...but thats just my hunch. However, there is no money in curing a lethal disease. There is only money in treating it. If you were the drug companies what would you do? 40 bucks a pill to kill aids. 1 time use or forty bucks a pill to treat it 3 times a day, for the rest of your life?

When I was talking about the research I meant the research about electromagnetics changing your emotions and moods. I.E. religious expierence.
 
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