You meet Bob at a party—a friend of a friend. He's way drunk but let's slip that he's a procurement manager at a very large, very flush government contractor. Dude sucks, but all it takes is a wordless handshake to get his name, contact info, schedule, and LinkedIn profile downloaded into the iPhone stored in your front pocket. No wireless technology was involved; all it took to beam Bob's data into your phone was regular old human flesh.
Using the human body as a medium for connecting electronic devices may turn out to be practical, and, eventually, pretty normal. In the current issue of IEEE Computer, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology describe just such a flesh-based system.

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