{"id":132,"date":"2004-06-24T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T19:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/physical-computing\/132\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T19:40:49","slug":"bodynet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/132\/","title":{"rendered":"BodyNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/journal\/sj\/mit\/sectione\/zimmerman.pdf\">IBM research article<\/a> describes using the human body as a transmission element in a data network (very personal area networking), and seems to pre-date this <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&#38;Sect2=HITOFF&#38;d=PALL&#38;p=1&#38;u=\/netahtml\/srchnum.htm&#38;r=1&#38;f=G&#38;l=50&#38;s1=6,754,472.WKU.&#38;OS=PN\/6,754,472&#38;RS=PN\/6,754,472\" target=\"_other\">Microsoft patent<\/a> by at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>There is more on this topic available at MIT, among others.  Olin Shivers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ai.mit.edu\/~shivers\/bn.ps\">1993 presentation<\/a> on bodyNets is the earliest I&#8217;ve found so far.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/biometrics\" rel=\"tag\">biometrics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/electronics\" rel=\"tag\">electronics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This IBM research article describes using the human body as a transmission element in a data network (very personal area networking), and seems to pre-date this Microsoft patent by at least four years.There is more on this topic available at MIT, among others.  Olin Shivers&#8217; 1993 presentation on bodyNets is the earliest I&#8217;ve found so far.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/132\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BodyNet<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","category-physicalcomputing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}