Forget about your current Ethernet connection you now use so often at home. The Force is within you and by that I mean you can power an internet connection by yourselves, or so say South Korean scientists. Forget about wireless internet connections, or even WiMax, because it seems our body is capable of connecting all by itself, with the right tech attachments.

Let's see what attachments the scientists at the Korea University used to successfully achieve a 10 Mbps speed rate. The tools employed in this experiment were some small flexible electrodes placed on the subject's skin. Because our skin has very good data transferring properties and it is overall quite energy efficient, the low-frequency electromagnetic waves can travel easily through it.

The electrodes were placed 12 inches apart from one another and had no trouble communicating with each other through the skin. Even more, the scientists in Seoul say that the skin acts as a shelter for the waves, thus communication between this type of electrodes can be done without any exterior interference.

You might think that we cannot walk around with electrodes stuck to us just so that we have never ending YouTube access. So do the Koreans, as they have tested these electrodes for medical applications. The sugar in our blood and other corporeal data can be easily monitored with this type of connection, so don't expect to come home from work and plug a Matrix-like connector into you and immediately start chatting over IMs.

The connectors used are about three human hairs thick and have withstood over 700,000 bends at a 90-degree angle. With a silicon-rich polymer coating, they are skin safe and already the Koreans have started discussing the creation of health monitoring networks based on this technology. Long term monitoring is also capable and the future may bring the implementation of this newly discovered technology into ECGs and EEGs. NewScientist has more details on the subject.


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