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Using Human Bodies as Wireless Antennas
科技公司如何能将你的肉体 转化为一个工作的无线天线？
与其制造外部硬件，
微软专利 US-8665-210B2 将你的 生物质量用作网络基础设施。
看看一条活生生的人类手臂。
在皮肤之下，它充满了 高导电性的水分和电解质。
根据该专利，
可穿戴设备不仅仅是 在空气中广播。相反，
它利用你手臂的导电 组织作为物理传输线。
该设备的电场 跨越了到你皮肤的微小间隙，
将其信号直接融入 你身体的自然导电通道中。
但存在一个重大的工程障碍。
标准天线需要精确、 坚固的金属形状才能正常共振，
而柔软、不断运动的 人体完全不具备那种几何结构。
该专利的解决方法 利用了近场效应，
让数据直接搭载在 你现有的生物电场上。
信号直接穿过 你的肌肉和骨骼进行传播，
将你的整个身体变成一个活体辐射 源， 向外部接收器进行广播。
所以，如果你再回头看那条活生生、 有呼吸的人类手臂，它已不再仅仅是 生物组织。
它是一个完全活跃的、 无线数据网络中的广播节点。
美国国家航空航天局喷气推进实验 室， 加州理工学院
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Original transcript (English)
How could a tech company turn your physical body into a working wireless antenna? Instead of building external hardware, Microsoft patent US-8665-210B2 uses your biological mass as network infrastructure. Look at a living human arm. Beneath the skin, it is packed with highly conductive water and electrolytes.
According to the patent, a wearable device doesn't just broadcast through the open air. Instead, it uses your arm's conductive tissue as a physical transmission line. The device's electrical fields bridge the tiny gap to your skin, merging its signal directly into your body's natural conductive pathways.
But there is a major engineering hurdle. Standard antennas require precise, rigid metal shapes to resonate properly, and a soft, constantly moving human body completely lacks that geometry. The patent's workaround utilizes near-field effects, letting the data piggyback directly onto your existing bioelectric field.
The signal propagates straight through your muscles and skeleton, turning your entire form into a living radiator that broadcasts outward to external receivers. So if you look back at that living, breathing human arm, it is no longer just biological tissue. It is a fully active, broadcasting node in a wireless data network. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
