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Don't expect to get plugged directly into the Web and have your body turned into a router, though, as this tech is meant primarily for medical purposes. Unfortunately, current options for patients whose vital signs require constant monitoring entail either tangled messes of cables, or battery-sapping wireless technologies like Bluetooth. According to Sang-Hoon Lee, one of the researchers on the project, the skin-based network would reduce power requirements by 90-percent.
The Korea University crew is working with an unnamed "large electronics manufacturer" to build health-monitoring systems with the new technology and special electrodes. Of course, we could easily see this coming to the consumer market one day, too. Imagine wearing a wireless headset that communicates with your iPhone through your skin, rather than through one of those tacky, hackable Bluetooths. (Blueteeth?) [From: NewScientist, via: TechRadar]
[Ed. note: The article has updated to clarify that Japanese researchers first demoed this technology in 2005.]
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Subscribe to commentsalimaamoserMar 16th 2010 7:54AM
How does the iphone touchscreen work? I know the basics, it has something to do with conductivity.
Ok, so I'm not looking for info on how the coordinate system or how charge is measured and location calculated. Help me with some conductivity issues =)
The only things that have worked on the iphone screen for me are my fingers. I've tried some conductive material but they're probably too thin, scissor blades and stuff....Aside from sausages which I haven't exactly tried. what materials are "conductors"? Why does the touchscreen work even with a piece of plastic over it? Is plastic conductive? Why is human flesh conductive? Why is the earth considered a giant conductor, isn't it a rock, rock conducts electricity? I previously thought that those "magic" covers for the iphone were special b/c they didn't block "finger signal" thus justifying their (comparatively)high prices for what is to my eyes, a sheet of plastic.
I'm trying to make a soft stylus sort of thing. I'm thinking wrapping some sort of conductive fiber around the end of my pen so i can dual use it, with a pop up stand cover for my iphone it'll be like a laptop. I'm thinking either I sew in some conductive material into a fabric and glue or rubber band it to the tip, or use aluminum. Aluminum doesn't seem soft enough, and I don't don't any thin conductive materials and are threadlike enough to be sewn into clothes. How do those gloves and styluses that companies make for the iphone work? I'm thinking it's not copper wire...gold can be really thin though....but a stylus seems to need a pretty large area to be recognized on the screen, which is why thin conductors I've tried haven't been working...I guess..
No access to materials right now so can't check...
why does sausage conduct electricity?
Do people have different levels of electrical resistance on their skin? Once I placed my hands on this physics machine that measure something electrical about your skin, most people had a middle value...I had zero ish...will this protect me a bit from lightning? Does it make it somewhat harder, require more surface contact to operate the iphone?
lot's a random questions, not really well organized, sorry =(
hope people can satisfy my curiosity, thanks in advance!
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Karl LiMar 16th 2010 10:13AM
The researchers in this article are South Korean, not Japanese.
terrenceMar 16th 2010 10:46AM
@Karl Li
We've updated to clarify that the Korean team was building off research by Japanese scientists.
Eric RobertsMar 16th 2010 10:20AM
It's Bluetooth, named after Danish king Harold Bluetooth, who was renowned for his communication skills. The proper verbiage would have been: "Imagine wearing a wireless headset that communicates with your iPhone through your skin, rather than through one of those tacky, hackable Bluetooth devices."
;-)
Eric RobertsMar 16th 2010 12:26PM
alimaamoser: it uses inductive capacitance to detect touches and gestures. THat is why a stylus will not work, but your finger does. Same applies to the Android devices.
jenifarr samMar 27th 2010 1:19AM
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