InSourced - Microsoft gets under your skin - patently! News Site
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Look, Ma, no Hands! Microsoft's line of thinking in using various frequencies with nano powered connections between devices that use the natural salinity of the skin to provide the network.
This would allow the interation, over the skin, of data. A sort of exterior pseudo nano-bot technology. The patent may prevent anyone trying this in Linux.
How long before we can scan images with our hands, or hook into the internet with our ears? By focusing on paradigm shifts of this nature, social engineering becomes possible. Microsoft may, for example, create a health grid, providing medical diagnosis by connecting your skin device to a network.
Various medical tests could be designed and simple treatments prescribed or a Doctor alerted. It should be a fairly simple matter to measure temperature, heatbeat and blood pressure and thus detect abnormalities in the general population.
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