{"id":30823,"date":"2016-10-06T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/panasonic-uses-human-touch-to-transfer-data"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:54","slug":"panasonic-uses-human-touch-to-transfer-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/panasonic-uses-human-touch-to-transfer-data","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic uses human touch to transfer data"},"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\/gdXP7Niszxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an age when digital information can fly around the connected networks of the world in the blink of an eye, it may seem a little <em>old timey<\/em> to consider delivering messages by hand. But that\u2019s precisely what Panasonic is doing at CEATEC this week. The company is demonstrating a prototype communication system where data is transmitted from one person to another through touch.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s very little information on the system available, but Panasonic says that the prototype uses electric field communication technology to move data from \u201cthing-to-thing, human-to-human and human-to-thing.\u201d Data transfer and authentication occurs when the objects or people touch, with digital information stored in a source tag instantaneously moving to a receiver module \u2013 kind of like NFC tap to connect technology, but with people in the equation as well as devices.<\/p>\n<p>It has the potential to allow business types to exchange contact information with a handshake, mood lighting in a room to be changed to match or contrast with clothing when a lamp is touched or access to a building granted by placing a hand or object on a lock interface or door handle. And Panasonic suggests that because the data is traveling through the body and not over the air, secure transmission is assured.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/panasonic-ceatec-human-body-communication-device\/45790\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/panasonic-ceatec-human-body-communication-device\/45790\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age when digital information can fly around the connected networks of the world in the blink of an eye, it may seem a little old timey to consider delivering messages by hand. But that\u2019s precisely what Panasonic is doing at CEATEC this week. The company is demonstrating a prototype communication system where data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,41,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-information-science","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30823\/revisions\/60158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}