The following article came through on my subscription to Innovation (a great resource for $18 a year):

…AND NEW-AGE BODY SURFING

Advances in personal area networks mean that your body soon could be the
backbone that provides broadband connectivity between your MP3 player and a
cordless headset, or your digital camera and a PC or printer.

"RedTacton, a new technology from Japan’s NTT, can send data over the surface
of the skin at speeds of up to 2Mbps — equivalent to a fast broadband data
connection. According to The Guardian, RedTacton-enabled devices would enable
music from an MP3 player to "pass through your clothing and shoot over your body
to headphones in your ears … (The Guardian17 Mar 2005)"

Definitely interesting technology … but my first thought was "shake the wrong hand or bump into the wrong person, and lose your identity."