Share Files With a Fist Bump: Wi-R Confines Signal to a User’s Body

Ixana, a specialist in human-computer interfaces with distributed computing, recently developed Wi-R, a communications protocol that turns the human body into a medium through which information can travel. As the popularity of wearable electronics increases, more devices need a high-speed, power-efficient communication protocol to operate. Wi-R aims to shake up how devices talk to each other.