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axxxr
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Microsoft this week was awarded one of the strangest patents you could imagine a software company would want to create. The patent number 6,754,472 describes a new method of transmitting power and data to devices worn around the body, and for communication and data exchange between those devices. Call me Robocop but this sounds a bit freaky even for a gadget crazy like myself. The devices would be wristwatches, pagers, PDAs, cell phones, head gear, audio players and anything else small enough that you can strap to yourself.
"As a result of carrying multiple portable electronic devices, there is often a significant amount of redundancy in terms of input/output devices included in the portable devices used by a single person," says the filing. "For example, a watch, pager, PDA and radio may all include a speaker."
Ok Microsoft, relax, you are freaking us out now, we know you have no good intentions in this world, just hold off on the windows powered pace makers.
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Microsoft Patents "Borg" Technology..."Resistance is Futile"
When people say that Microsoft is everywhere, they REALLY mean it. Betanews reports that Microsoft has patented a way to allow the body to manipulate electronic devices. I thought that this picture was quite appropriate for this story 
Researchers at Microsoft have devised a technique to assimilate the human body as a conduit for consumer electronics. How did Microsoft accomplish this feat? Electrodes attached to body use the skin as a system bus to transmit data and as a conductive medium to distribute power between devices. Microsoft's desired effect is to cut back on the I/O redundancy that results from when multiple devices attempt to communicate.
A glimpse of the exact technique used by Microsoft is outlined in United States patent number 6,754,472 and was awarded to Microsoft and its associates this past Tuesday.
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Posted: 2004-06-24 18:11
