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Bill Gates owns your body?

It sounds like an April Fool's Day joke, but it isn't. Microsoft hasactually succeeded in patenting the human body as a computer network.

US Patent 6,754,472, issued to the company on June 22, is for a methodand apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body.

As of now, geeks wanting to create a personal area network (PAN) haveto link their personal electronic devices — mobile phones, pagers andso on — using infra-red or radio signals.

Microsoft plans to use the skin's own conductive properties totransmit data needed to create such a network.

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