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Why use cables to transmit data when you can let the data course through your nerves?

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute is one of the Korean organizations that is researching and developing technologies that utilize the human body as a vehicle for data transmission.

“We’re researching technologies that can transmit data through human body as fast as existing broadband Internet connections, with speeds of 10 megabits per second,” said ETRI’s Dr. Kang Sung-won.

Although an electric current can flow through our bodies, the body’s electrical resistance is much higher than that of copper lines and sending data this way consumes a good deal of power.

That’s why researchers are working on technologies that use much less electricity and much faster transmission speeds. The electric current used to send the data is measured in pico-amperes, a tiny amount that is not harmful to humans.

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