"The Human Body, Patented"

A brilliant thought - posted on the US Patent and Trademark Office website:
"The human body is used as a conductive medium, e.g., a bus, over which power and/or data is distributed. Power is distributed by coupling a power source to the human body via a first set of electrodes. One or more devise [sic] to be powered, e.g., peripheral devices, are also coupled to the body via additional sets of electrodes. The devices may be, e.g., a speaker, display, watch, keyboard, etc. A pulsed DC signal or AC signal may be used as the power source." - L. Williams, W. Vablais and S.N. Bathiche, Technologists, Microsoft.