<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a7ff272-d3f8-4cb6-94b5-fae21b62342f/3A940997-D37F-4249-9066-96F91D910449/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9665833-1.html?tag=blog" href="http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9665833-1.html?tag=blog" style="font-size: 11px;">crave.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9665833-1.html?tag=blog"><P>This whole wireless thing has had a good run, but it's getting old. The really hot networking trend of the future is the human body.</p> <DIV class="cnet-image-div%20float-left"><IMG width="270" height="226" alt="" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20061129/human_270x226.jpg" class="cnet-image" /><SPAN class="image-credit">(Credit: New Scientist)</SPAN></DIV> <P> We've already seen how Korean researchers are turning flesh and bones into a "<A href="http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9664300-1.html" class="external-link">body area network</A>." Now, New Scientist reports that Sony researchers can send audio signals from headphones or media players <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2006/11/body-wired-headphones.html" class="external-link">directly through the body</A> of the listener, essentially using it as a living capacitator.</p> <P> "A music or video player sends a fluctuating signal to a conductive cloth pad--such as a wrist band--and this slightly charges the wearer's body. A pair of conductive ear pads in the headphones pick up the signal and rapidly convert it back into sound," the article explains. "Just a few millionths of an amp flow through the wearer's body, so there should be no nasty tingling effect."</p> <P> Upon further reflection, we think our Bluetooth works just fine.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A940997-D37F-4249-9066-96F91D910449/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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