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Bogglesteinsky
Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Patents Human Skin</div> You may remember some time ago, Microsoft basicaly patented clicking. Well, they have done it again. From <a href='http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_999310.html?menu=news.technology' target='_blank'>Ananova</a>.com, the boys at microsoft have patented human skin as a networking medium
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Microsoft has reportedly succeeded in patenting human skin as a new kind of network.
InSourced claims recently awarded US Patent No. 6,754, 472 is a 'method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body'.
The patent, it says, is part of a new plan to link together several devices using skin as a connector.
As an example, Microsoft says it would be possible to have just one speaker for a person's watch, PDA, and portable radio, if they were all connected to that speaker through skin.
It adds that different devices could be powered from a single power source strapped to the skin.
Each would be driven by multiple power supply signals working at different frequencies, and data and audio signals could also be transmitted over that same power signal.
The power source and devices would be connected to the body via electrodes.
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So, are they brainy or barmy? Have they seen something in the future no-one else has, or have they completely lost their minds?
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Microsoft has reportedly succeeded in patenting human skin as a new kind of network.
InSourced claims recently awarded US Patent No. 6,754, 472 is a 'method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body'.
The patent, it says, is part of a new plan to link together several devices using skin as a connector.
As an example, Microsoft says it would be possible to have just one speaker for a person's watch, PDA, and portable radio, if they were all connected to that speaker through skin.
It adds that different devices could be powered from a single power source strapped to the skin.
Each would be driven by multiple power supply signals working at different frequencies, and data and audio signals could also be transmitted over that same power signal.
The power source and devices would be connected to the body via electrodes.
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So, are they brainy or barmy? Have they seen something in the future no-one else has, or have they completely lost their minds?
Comments
Lowering one's level of reading abilities just to consider something funny is kinda poor, as there isn't even any misspelling or such to be made fun of <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
for eg:
instead of "we'd like to trademark Windows XP" ,
"We'd like to devour your flesh and steal your soul to power our warmachines"
See?
If your watch does it in trying to get to your headphones, you can SUE them.
If your watch does it in trying to get to your headphones, you can SUE them. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That made me laugh really hard <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I should really try patenting something weird like this, so I can become teh uber rich when a company starts using it!
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2. Boobies
3. Osama Bin Laden
4. Flubber
5. Flesh-Eating Go-Go Worms
~ DarkATi
I patent l33t sp34k and the letter n
That´ll make me a millionaire
Then we can jump on the sue Microsft bandwagon, along with the EU, the US, and most of the rest of the world.
I'll patent reproduction and everything produced by it will be mine. I SHALL OWN THE WORLD! I'll name everything pretzel to satisfy you.
So don't patent it.
Obviously NONE of the inventions we have worked BEFORE they were invented. Lightbulbs where terrible illumination before they were made. If Microsoft wants to make skin conduct electricity and they can patent then invent instead of the other way around, why not?
They patented skin as a conductor, which it clearly is not. Just seems a bit odd to me.
They patented skin as a conductor, which it clearly is not. Just seems a bit odd to me. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, see, they have two options.
Invent a way to utilize skin as a conductor, hope nobody else has done it, then patent it.
OR, since skin is already a conductor, albeit a bad one, they can already patent it and then improve it without time pressure.