Get permission before exfoliating

Posted on June 24, 2004 by Gene

You won’t believe this one.

Microsoft has reportedly succeeded in patenting human skin as a new kind of network.

InSourced claims recently awarded US Patent No. 6,754, 472 is a ‘method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body’.

The patent, it says, is part of a new plan to link together several devices using skin as a connector.