{"id":116610,"date":"2020-12-03T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/tech-makes-it-possible-to-digitally-communicate-through-human-touch"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:23:14","slug":"tech-makes-it-possible-to-digitally-communicate-through-human-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/tech-makes-it-possible-to-digitally-communicate-through-human-touch","title":{"rendered":"Tech makes it possible to digitally communicate through human touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2oscW5i5DQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger?<\/p>\n<p>A prototype developed by Purdue University engineers would essentially let your body act as the link between your card or smartphone and the reader or scanner, making it possible for you to transmit information just by touching a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype doesn\u2019t transfer money yet, but it\u2019s the first technology that can send any information through the direct touch of a fingertip. While wearing the prototype as a watch, a user\u2019s body can be used to send information such as a photo or password when touching a sensor on a laptop, the researchers show in a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger? A prototype developed by Purdue University engineers would essentially let your body act as the link between your card or smartphone and the reader or scanner, making it possible for you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}