I can hear it now: "Nonono, we weren't sleeping together — just a routine system backup." Snip from a press release for a short-range networking technology demo that took place at a research institute in SoKo (not the first time this sort of thing has been demoed, despite what the press release claims).
Digital Human Body Communication was first unveiled to the public. It is also called as BAN(Body Area Network), as it handles communication between devices using the human body as a medium.
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said that although only a small amount of data, such as information on a name card, can be transmitted at the moment because the data transmission speed is just to be 2.4Kbps, the speed will be improved to 1MB within the yearend.
ETRI explained that BAN can be utilized in numerous ways, such as touch based authentification service, electronic payment service, e-business card service, and touch based advertisement service.
Link (Thanks, Brian Baglow, via unwired)
