Ready for your own skin network? A Japanese company has come up with some weird new technology that uses your skin as a broadband connection by messing with a natural electrical field every one of us has.

The article goes on to talk about transmitting data through skin-to-skin contact, and doing things like giving someone your phone number by shaking their hand or kissing them. Of course you know where this is going. Intercourse mail! Send someone a love letter... by having sex with them! You're not just exchanging bodily fluids, you're exchanging data packets! Just think, while you're boning someone, you can also be sending them a huge uncompressed yaoi movie!

This technology also basically destroys cyberpunk completely. Why would you have someone install wires into your body if you can transmit data just as effectively without any cables? Yeah, you wouldn't. Unless you were like, a hardcore William Gibson fanboy. But I'm sure he's gonna pick up on this story soon and rant in his blog about suing the Japanese company for stealing his idea. Man, for a guy who hasn't written a decent book in years, he's pretty full of himself. And don't get me started on his screenplays.

Anyway, I think this new technology sounds cool. The article talks about how it's better than normal wireless technology because it's more secure. Anyone can snoop on wireless, especially if you're not using WEP or something, but some guy on the other side of the room can't get your data if you're not touching him.

Of course, this may also result in a rash of people feeling other people up in an attempt to steal their data. But it would make being a data pirate much sexier!