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RE: PAN's

I was thinking about PAN as well, and it might have some applications. The
bit rates using PAN are around 9600, last time I read anything about it. I
actually ordered the thesis written by Tom Zimmerman ( I don't think it was
Steve Mann doing the demo for Alan Alda), from MIT at that time. The thesis
talks about the physiology of the human body and how you can make a PAN
work. There are also some schematics, but can hardly read them. Maybe this
is not the best solution for a body network, but, hey, putting a little bit
of current through our body might reduce the possibilities of getting
osteoporosis.

Edmund

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Macmillan [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 4:52 AM
To: 
Subject: PAN's

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
>  
> 
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