Personal Area Network
A Personal Area Network, will allow all distributed components of a wearable computer to communicate with each other as well as with other computers nearby using either the body, or clothing as the data transfer medium.

Imagine walking into a room full of strangers at a business conference. Normally, a flurry of business card swapping would insue as you meet people. But you have a wearble computer with "PAN" and so does many of the others in attendance. By simply shaking hands with you, your computer receives a signal through your skin from the other person through "PAN". This is known as "linkup", as soon as this link was established, your computer asked the other persons wearable computer for his/her business card information, and vice versa. Within moments, his/her Name, Phone Number, Email Address, etc. is displayed before your eyes at the same time the information is stored in your contact database. In addition, if your wearable computer was equipped with a digital "wearcam" camera, A digital snapshot of his/her face is taken and appended to their business card information. Now that your computer has a visual reference of this person, you could meet them 2 years later, and your computer would recognize them and bring up information such as: the last time you met, what was the subject of your conversation, as well as their business card information.

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