[HN Gopher] Turning the Body into a Wire
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       Turning the Body into a Wire
        
       Author : the-mitr
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2020-11-26 07:49 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org)
        
       | _hao wrote:
       | As a martial arts practitioner when saw this title in my RSS feed
       | I expected something completely different, alas it's not MA
       | related.
        
       | dkdk8283 wrote:
       | I'm far more worried about my smartphone than pacemaker/insulin
       | pump, however I don't believe myself to be a target of state
       | surveillance.
        
         | swirepe wrote:
         | > however I don't believe myself to be a target of state
         | surveillance.
         | 
         | lol
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | The site did a weird thing for me. Is this because of the forced
       | ad on the website. I recorded a video of the experience -
       | https://www.dropbox.com/s/849ehk33unzrzfh/spectrum.ieee.org-...
        
       | ddmma wrote:
       | It's called Body Area Network (BAN) and there are also standards
       | like your router
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_area_network There are beds
       | in hospitals that connect to the patients vitals, already.
        
       | gioscarab wrote:
       | PJDL is a communication protocol I work on since 2010 that uses a
       | single wire to connect up to 255 devices and can even operate
       | using the human body as a conductor, here is the video of its
       | operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWlhKD5lz5w
        
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