{"id":14101,"date":"2004-06-24T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/microsoft-patents-body-power\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T11:08:00","slug":"microsoft-patents-body-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/microsoft-patents-body-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patents Body Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Microsoft%20patents%20body%20power\/2100-1014_3-5244766.html?tag=nefd.top\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/billgates_borg.gif\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Bill Gates Borg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><i>News.com<\/i> reports that &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Microsoft%20patents%20body%20power\/2100-1014_3-5244766.html?tag=nefd.top\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft has been awarded a patent for using human skin as a power conduit and data bus<\/a>.  Patent No. <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.com.com\/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3Fu%3D%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm%26Sect1%3DPTO1%26Sect2%3DHITOFF%26p%3D1%26r%3D1%26l%3D50%26f%3DG%26d%3DPALL%26s1%3D6754472.WKU.%26OS%3DPN%2F6754472%26RS%3DPN%2F6754472&amp;siteId=3&amp;oId=2100-1014-5244766&amp;ontId=7343&amp;lop=nl_ex\" target=\"_blank\">6,754,472<\/a>, which was published Tuesday, describes a method for transmitting power and data to devices worn on the body and for communication of data between those devices.&rdquo;  Let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/library\/aliens\/article\/70558.html\" target=\"_blank\">Borg<\/a> comparisons begin&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/06\/23\/1513218&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=126&amp;tid=155&amp;tid=99\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a> (story and Borg icon) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108807532468712131?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News.com reports that &ldquo;Microsoft has been awarded a patent for using human skin as a power conduit and data bus. Patent No. 6,754,472, which was published Tuesday, describes a method for transmitting power and data to devices worn on the body and for communication of data between those devices.&rdquo; Let the Borg comparisons begin&hellip; via &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/24\/microsoft-patents-body-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Patents Body Power&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}