Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT), in Tokyo, has a different take on the idea: instead of using people as power sources, use them as 10-megabit-per-second communication links to each other. NTT is working to perfect the networking technology it calls RedTacton ("Red" for warmth, "T" for touch, and "acton" for action), which could ultimately let people transfer data to each other's handhelds by means of a handshake or a slap on the back. While NTT has already made prototype devices available to potential partners for inspection, they doesn't yet have commercial-grade RedTacton devices customized for specific uses or any applications that aren't already served by RF technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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