RedTacton - be the network
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) is developing an innovative Human Area Networking (HAN) technology called RedTacton (touch + action = tacton) that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body, giving peer-2-peer a whole new meaning. Using a novel electro-optic sensor (that bounces a laser beam off of an electro-optionc crystal and measures the reflected beam), NTT has already developed a small PCMCIA card-sized prototype RedTacton transceiver. RedTacton enables the first practical Human Area Network between body-centered electronic devices and PCs or other network devices embedded in the environment through a new generation of user interface based on natural human actions such as touching, walking, or stepping on a particular spot. RedTacton can be used for intuitive operation of computer-based systems in daily life, temporary one-to-one private networks based on personal handshaking, device personalization, security, and a host of other applications based on new behavior patterns enabled by RedTacton.
