Microsoft Patents Body Power

Microsoft Patents Body Power
Microsoft has apparently succeeded in patenting human skin as a new type of network.

InSourced magazine claims that the recently-awarded United States Patent number 6 754 472 is a "method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body".

The patent, it says, forms part of a new project to link together several devices using human tissue as the connector.

As an example, Microsoft claims that it would be possible to have one speaker for an individual's watch and portable radio, if they were both connected to that speaker through the skin.

Microsoft adds that separate devices could be powered from a single source that was strapped to the skin.

Each one would then be driven by multiple power supply signals working at various frequencies, and data and audio signals could also be transmitted over that same power signal.

The power source and the different electronic devices would be connected to the body using electrodes.