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10Mb/s through skin

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Higgins Whilshire IV, EsqPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
06:39 PM ET (US)
 I can also imagine Spammers groping people on crowded subway trains in order to spread their crap ads.

I'd hate to even fathom what kind of advertising methods would be used to 'sponsor' these systems. Nike swooshes appearing on the skin by triggering 'tans' in the upper epidermis. Ok, thats a stretch.
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Higgins Whilshire IV, EsqPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
06:32 PM ET (US)
 Reminds me of the Drummers from Stephson's The Diamond Age
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
05:48 PM ET (US)
 This will finally be closure to the long-running, nasty D&D geek argument about whether Mud Golems or Flesh Golems have a higher data-transfer rate.
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Eli the BeardedPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
03:51 PM ET (US)
 New ways to connect to a computer for Las Vegas cheating!
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Joey deVillaPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
02:00 PM ET (US)
 We could turn "Hands Across America" into a giant MP3-sharing fest. The RIAA can't have us all arrested...
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Michael SlavitchPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
01:40 PM ET (US)
 Much more interesting for subcutaneous instruments such as pacemakers and other devices.
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erniePerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
01:27 PM ET (US)
Oh, the irony of downloading some worm or virus that wipes out your hard drive through the shaking of another person's hand, thereby making human skin the vector of your computer's infection.
Edited 10-07-2002 01:28 PM
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Lloyd BurchillPerson was signed in when posted
10-07-2002
11:37 AM ET (US)
 Tom Zimmerman was doing flesh-networks at the Media Lab in 1995, though they only worked at about 4kbps. I wonder what became of his work?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED3-12.html
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