Highly secure instant touch transfer is here | Hard Reset

What if your body could become a USB cable? Ixana, a cutting-edge wearable hardware company, is revolutionizing how we connect our devices by using our bodies as conductors.

What if the future of wireless technology wasn't wireless at all? Enter Ixana's Wi-R technology – a groundbreaking system that turns your body into a living, breathing network. This isn't just another incremental step in tech evolution; it's a leap into a new paradigm of human-device interaction.

Picture this: your smartwatch, phone, and AR glasses all communicate through your body, creating a personal, secure network. Wi-R makes this possible by sending tiny electrical signals around your body, much like your nervous system does naturally. The result? A network that's 100 times more energy-efficient than traditional wireless methods and far more secure.

The potential applications are mind-boggling. From medical devices with extended battery life to AR glasses that don't need bulky processors, Wi-R could usher in a new era of wearable tech. But perhaps most exciting is the prospect of devices so seamlessly integrated into our lives that we forget we're wearing them at all. Are we ready for a world where our bodies become the ultimate USB cable? Tune in to explore the fascinating future of body area networks.

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[JeffBilkins]

'Unhackable' hahaha, famous last words.

[ToGoMania]

The R in Wi-R is for celebrating pirates!

[whoisamp]

Imagine rick rolling anybody that walks by

[RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

If someone could bump into you and have a device run a script to hack whatever you have connected to you by touch, that's not very secure.

[MatthewHarrold]

Some powerful patents are being developed with this tech. It will never be unhackable, that was an unfortunate decision by Freethink, but this is a viable alternative to traditional radio for low-power, easy-to-configure wearables.

[Marcus-Brutus]

Freethink should make a video about communication protocols using bodies of water, water vapor, rainstorms and mycelium.

[billyte]

14:14 Just wanted to say, what he said about encryption is completely 100% wrong. Encryption is not a cat and mouse game. We have incredibly solid battle tested encryption methods that are basically unbreakable. This person clearly does not know very much about encryption.

[BaguetteBot]

Interesting but if all that's needed to hack the network is to introduce a connection without someone knowing, then any surfaces you touch could potentially be that, unless you can be certain that it is not a conductive material. I can already see car companies literally gobbling up ALL of your data with this just by sitting in their car, or any company that you interact with physically by touching the door handle of their offices, or the police hacking your phone during an arrest simply by touching you... And then there are public gatherings... Anyone that would be standing next to you, for example at a football game, in the line at Starbucks, at a concert, etc., could potentially be hacking you.

I guess the devices you wear would need to be able to tell you when the size of your network changes and allow for some sort of control over your connectivity. Sadly they didn't address that one bit in the video so I'm very skeptic at best that this is gonna be an unhackable tech.

[themogget]

So this could lower power consumption and raise bitrate for my Virtual Reality kit? My VR displays talking to my headphones talking to my wristband controllers and my phone or compute deal. All of them become smaller, lighter, and have longer battery life. It sounds like Meta's Project Orion would really benefit from this. I think even a Quest 4 would benefit from it, although bluetooth energy use is kinda a drop in the bucket compared to the displays.

[shay]

Each cell in our body uses tiny differences in electrical charge between interior and exterior of the cell to allow the flow of nutrients in/out. I wonder how constant pervasive wi-R data will effect normal functions.

[chillbeach]

I remember seeing a similar concepts of "handshake" information transfer in an old documentary.

[derek]

*Punches himself in the face* "Uh oh, some one hacked my body signals.

[dannokk]

Great, digital pickpockets. "Ooh, sorry buddy! Didn't mean to bump in to you, lemme just pat your shoulder a bit to make sure you're okay. Didn't wrinkle your shirt or anything right? Well thanks for the data, bye!"

[Frontduty]

"hacked by touch", i can see a article titled something like this

[Aras]

This currently could have a lot of use in VR full body tracking. Imagine trackers, that you have to charge way less (maybe with some auto charge through movement not at all). The convenience would be worth it to many.

I don't see it replacing Bluetooth for headphones though, you too often have your phone laying around somewhere else while you listen. (Maybe disable bluetooth when a Wi-R connection is there)

[policeman]

Conspiracy theorists will love this haha

[jacobbaumgardner]

“Reboot Optics”
“Overload”
“Short circuit”

[blandman]

Hey I’m pretty sure that’s now the PAN keycards worked in Metal Gear Solid

[MD-rzdn]

What matters is if it interacts with body functions or implants or can be manipulated to do so.

[Freddisred]

Cool, but the public will 100% sacrifice security in the name of convenience. A powerful new standard no doubt, but no BT killer.
I hope we get a new generation of StreetPass style tech out of this.