Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Data with a human touch (09 Jun 2005) DATA networks can take many forms. They can be constructed using towers with coloured flags, carrier pigeons, electric pulses travelling along wires, or bursts of laser light whizzing along optical fibres. But perhaps strangest of all is the idea of using the human body itself as a network. While it sounds bizarre, systems that use the body to link up different devices are already available—and they might even be quite useful. Article URL: http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4031119 Read 73 more articles from Economist sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Flash and carry     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy