Electrifying Touch
A peck on the cheek or a warm handshake is all you need to exchange information and data. HAN(human area network) is a new name,enables exchange of information by just touching. Data can be transeffered via skin.
Japanese company Nippon telegraph and telephone corporation(NIT), Tokyo is using HAN for its new device calledred Tacton for this purpose. red tacton safely turns the surface of human body into a data transmission path at a speed of 10mbps betweem any two points of the body.
music from an mp3 player in your pocket would pass through your clothinh and shoot over your body to headphones in your ears. instead of tiddling with cable to connect your digital camera to your computer, you can transmit picture by just touching the pc while the camera is around your neck.
red tacton enables high speed han. in past bluetoothh, infrared and other technologies have been proposed to solve the problem of last meter connectivity. red tacton is not just another name it involves communication with touch. the name red tacton literally is a combination of touch and action. touch and action form the term tacton and the red is to emphasize warm communication as red is a warm color.