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Aap.

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:50:41 GMT

aap met banaan in het spel... TIMBERRRR!!!

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:39:10 GMT

hehehe ... searching for Loempia (eggroll) and finding this .... awesome

I ... am ... worried

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:33:00 GMT

bare with me here... ... my life seems over

gaia

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:06:23 GMT

this is nice...
kinda a mix between myspace and an online RPG..... with online gaming and guilds.. and blogspace and forum...
supersweet and just addictive... I just have a fishingrod at the moment.. but I will get more!

new technology uses human body for broadband networking

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:31:51 GMT

Published on TaipeiTimes
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2005/03/20/2003247076

By sending data over the surface of the skin, it may soon be possible to trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or to swap phone numbers by kissing

By Paul Rubens
THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Sunday, Mar 20, 2005,Page 12

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Your body could soon be the backbone of a broadband personal data network linking your mobile phone or MP3 player to a cordless headset, your digital camera to a PC or printer, and all the gadgets you carry around to each other.

These personal area networks are already possible using radio-based technologies, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, or just plain old cables to connect devices. But NTT, the Japanese communications company, has developed a technology called RedTacton, which it claims can send data over the surface of the skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps -- equivalent to a fast broadband data connection.

Using RedTacton-enabled devices, music from an MP3 player in your pocket would pass through your clothing and shoot over your body to headphones in your ears. Instead of fiddling around with a cable to connect your digital camera to your computer, you could transfer pictures just by touching the PC while the camera is around your neck. And since data can pass from one body to another, you could also exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands, trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or swap phone numbers just by kissing.

NTT is not the first company to use the human body as a conduit for data: IBM pioneered the field in 1996 with a system that could transfer small amounts of data at very low speeds, and last June, Microsoft was granted a patent for "a method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body."

But RedTacton is arguably the first practical system because, unlike IBM's or Microsoft's, it doesn't need transmitters to be in direct contact with the skin -- they can be built into gadgets, carried in pockets or bags, and will work within about 20cm of your body. RedTacton doesn't introduce an electric current into the body -- instead, it makes use of the minute electric field that occurs naturally on the surface of every human body. A transmitter attached to a device, such as an MP3 player, uses this field to send data by modulating the field minutely in the same way that a radio carrier wave is modulated to carry information.

Receiving data is more complicated because the strength of the electric field involved is so low. RedTacton gets around this using a technique called electric field photonics: A laser is passed though an electro-optic crystal, which deflects light differently according to the strength of the field across it. These deflections are measured and converted back into electrical signals to retrieve the transmitted data.

An obvious question, however, is why anyone would bother networking though their body when proven radio-based personal area networking technologies, such as Bluetooth, already exist? Tom Zimmerman, the inventor of the original IBM system, says body-based networking is more secure than broadcast systems, such as Bluetooth, which have a range of about 10m.

"With Bluetooth, it is difficult to rein in the signal and restrict it to the device you are trying to connect to," says Zimmerman. "You usually want to communicate with one particular thing, but in a busy place there could be hundreds of Bluetooth devices within range."

As human beings are ineffective aerials, it is very hard to pick up stray electronic signals radiating from the body, he says. "This is good for security because even if you encrypt data it is still possible that it could be decoded, but if you can't pick it up it can't be cracked."

Zimmerman also believes that, unlike infrared or Bluetooth phones and PDAs, which enable people to "beam" electronic business cards across a room without ever formally meeting, body-based networking allows for more natural interchanges of information between humans.

"If you are very close or touching someone, you are either in a busy subway train, or you are being intimate with them, or you want to communicate," he says. "I think it is good to be close to someone when you are exchanging information."

RedTacton transceivers can be treated as standard network devices, so software running over Ethernet or other TCP/IP protocol-based networks will run unmodified.

Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, says that while Bluetooth or other radio technologies may be perfectly suitable to link gadgets for many personal area networking purposes, there are certain applications for which RedTacton technology would be ideal.

"I recently acquired my own in-body device -- a pacemaker -- but it takes a special radio frequency connector to interface to it. As more and more implants go into bodies, the need for a good Internet Protocol connection increases," he says.

In the near future, the most important application for body-based networking may well be for communications within, rather than on the surface of, or outside, the body.

An intriguing possibility is that the technology will be used as a sort of secondary nervous system to link large numbers of tiny implanted components placed beneath the skin to create powerful onboard -- or in-body -- computers.

yesh!

Sun, 15 May 2005 16:34:00 GMT

you want bukakeee.....

Sat, 14 May 2005 01:10:11 GMT

HOT or NOT
6.7

42 votes
Rate me!

hahahahahahahaha........ please be gentle

yaaay.... just waiting till the 19th!!

Fri, 13 May 2005 22:52:12 GMT

when are they finaly going to produce the realy lightsabers... you just know you want one
and should be able to make them by now....or maybe just a lightpocket knife...
or a light swissknife even :D

cats!

Mon, 09 May 2005 21:22:43 GMT

Sex!!!!

Thu, 05 May 2005 18:33:29 GMT

It's Not Sex. It's ... :
Praying with the Knees Upward

Sex up your own name here!

randomness

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:43:48 GMT

blood

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:31:42 GMT

okay... I am sure of it.. there is something or someone in my stomach that is trying to kill me!
I have been puking blood for the last week now and there are certain points in my belly that keep hurting more and more.
And I wasnt even talking about the normal stomach aches that were there all the time.....

still not sure what it is exactly... just that it hurts like hell sometimes. I might even go see a doctor now :(

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:35:57 GMT

LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER:	Spirited Away...
WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW:	no book atm
FAVORITE BOARD GAME:	Colonisten van Catan
FAVORITE MAGAZINE:	Edge
FAVORITE SMELLS:	freshly made bread
COMFORT FOOD:	fresh bread with olives and/or feta
FAVORITE SOUNDS:	silence or dripping of rain in the little alley next to my house
WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD:	lonelyness
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING:	'give me a huuugggg'
FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE:	everything veggie
FUTURE CHILD'S NAME:	Sanne - girl Mus - boy
FINISH THIS STATEMENT: "IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY, I WOULD":	go swiming a lot
DO YOU DRIVE FAST:	only on a motorbike or scooter
DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL:	2 of em actualy (hotwater bottles) one cat and a cow
STORMS -- COOL OR SCARY:	love em
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR:	Dinky Toy
FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK:	beer, ouzo or absynth
FINISH THIS STATEMENT,'IF I HAD THE TIME, I WOULD LOVE TO':	make my own bed
DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI:	yep.. all of it
IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE:	I dont really mind, I had them all allready
GLASS HALF-EMPTY OR FULL:	half full, of course
HOW MANY CITIES/TOWNS HAVE YOU LIVED IN:	2
FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX:	the ocean
FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH:	soccer
WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED:	floor
TOILET PAPER/ PAPER TOWEL--OVER OR UNDER:	over
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:25:33 GMT

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:21:33 GMT

back by popular demand :

ah well, I am not the man that I used to be...

btw check out the other tests too

here is my kinkyness score : 340 <-- second time it was 395
and the link : http://www.hotlanta.com/kinktest.htm

weird shit

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:42:04 GMT

addict

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:19:19 GMT

new latest online obsessions :

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/reverted/

http://www.isketch.net/

http://www.queenalice.com/

http://www.ibs.ee/dict/

just for the ones interrested in any of these and wish to challenge me in a game, my nick is 'reverted'

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:53:31 GMT

Whoooahahahahaaaaaa

somewhere in the middle I am lost .. and am glad I lost it

never again!

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:20:19 GMT

damnit, I was way to drunk last night. So I am saying right now :
no more free-drinkin parties for me

hell I FEEL FUCKING AWFULL
I think I scared off some people as well, I said some things I shouldnt have and am very ashamed of that, very very ashamed
and I did my best to look as ugly as I could, so that noone would even go near me, it had the oposite effect DAMNIT!

and I am hungry, hungover, I think I managed to even look good in a skirt/dress/nurses outfit (well okay, not good, but still average!)
I even worked at the bar again, and at the door and acted all like a beefed up bouncer 'Where THE FUCK is your stamp!!!'

omg no more beer for me the coming time, at least not the next couple of hours DAMNIT

acolade pukes

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:52:31 GMT

Take the quiz: "What do your anime breasts look like, eh?"

Nicely Medium
You're nicely medium... You're not embarassingly small or painfully big. Don't change yourself, unless you're a masochist. Then it's okay, I guess.

'I have returned' <--reference to dragoons

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:13:14 GMT

I just uninstalled soulseek

it killed my health, social life, and drive to do anything

YAY, for a new beginning

~~http://www.slsknet.org/~~

ps : I am still on MySpace and MSN for the people who want to contact me

Maybe tomorrow

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:17:59 GMT

My mind is like a void. Today was a loss, but I don't care. Pfft. What can I say? Eh. Basically nothing seems important.

That's how it is

It's not important

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:27:25 GMT

Not much on my mind. I've just been letting everything pass me by. I haven't been up to much today. My mind is like a bunch of nothing.

So it goes

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:47:24 GMT

Not much on my mind worth mentioning, but eh. Nothing seems worth doing. Not much noteworthy happening. I've just been sitting around waiting for something to happen,

but what can I say?

Maybe tomorrow

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:30:55 GMT

Basically nothing seems worth thinking about, but oh well. Eh. I haven't gotten anything done lately, but whatever. Not much on my mind right now. I haven't been up to much recently.

ah well...