I have been meaning to look into this for quite a while now, can someone give me more info on PAN's (personal area networks) as described by our friend Steve Mann on the discovery channel, I believe he was explaining this to Alan Alden (hawkeye off of mash) IIRC he was saying that if two people with wearables and PAN's were to shake hands they could transfer data across the link, COOL tech if you ask me I was meaning to start a whole different thread on this but here goes anyways: My latest greatest and craziest idea is this, do you remember a while back a guy who embedded a microchip encapsulated in glass into his leg, it did relatively nothing, transmitted back a bar code when hit with a certain RF frequency. what I want to do is encapsulate in glass and embed in my lip and ear cartilage a microphone and a speaker based on vibrations like that cell phone where you stick your finger in your ear. and then have them talk to my wearable via a PAN to do TTS and STT with Emacspeak. powering the devices is still to be worked out but.... Comments all?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Laforest" <> To: <
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Staying dry > > Hmm....for low bit-rate data like LCD screens and key entry, how about a > Personnal Area Network? I haven't looked at the idea in a long time so I > have no idea how cheap/fast "body ethernet" is. > > ...or in our case: "body multi-drop serial" :) > > Eric LaForest > > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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