What are researchers doing lately? He earns his living by trying revolutionary things, like being able to send data wirelessly using our bodies.
So, a team of engineering researchers from the University of Washington discovered a new method, leaving the classic one that uses a magnetic field for data transfer, and using the one through which data can be sent from a phone held in one hand, to another device touched by the other hand.
The method is based on static electricity which is conducted by the body. The data is still wireless, but it is inside the body, "moving" with the help of low-frequency electromagnetic transmissions, generated by a touchpad or a fingerprint sensor.
So far, research engineers have managed to transfer about 50 bits per second using a laptop touchpad and 25 bits per second using a fingerprint sensor, such speeds being enough to send, for example, a simple password or PIN code in just a few seconds.
