Monthly Archives: June 2004
BodyNet
This IBM research article describes using the human body as a transmission element in a data network (very personal area networking), and seems to pre-date this Microsoft patent by at least four years.There is more on this topic available at MIT, among others. Olin Shivers’ 1993 presentation on bodyNets is the earliest I’ve found so far. Continue reading
Seeing with the tongue
Neuroscientists in Montreal, Denmark, and the US have developed a Braille-like tongue display of 144 pixels, that stimulates the visual areas of the brain through the tongue…. It may be impractical now, but it’s an interesting approach to the problem of providing vision replacement or augmentation through technology.More details can be found at this link.Thanks to Howard Rheingold’s Smart mobs blog for the links.
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Air-TiVo?
The basic premise of it is that DAB is just transmission of a digital data stream, so there’s no reason you can’t put a hard drive in the radio (or just a bunch of RAM) and give it the radio a buffer, so you can pause the broadcast…. Would it be possible to combine the technologies in the Bug with a frequency scanner and create a sort of super Air-TiVo, that scans the airwaves for songs you’re interested in, and saves them when they’re played? Continue reading