Store data in your body without cyborg modification - New Scientist

Store data in your body without cyborg modification: "Floppy discs? Too 1980s. Thumb drives? Too easy to lose. Anyway, who needs a thumb drive when you can store data in your thumb? A new program called Sparsh lets you transfer files from one device to another simply by touching the screen – and you don't have to join the Borg collective first.

Transferring files from one computer to another is a major pain. Even cloud-based storage like Dropbox is still irritatingly complicated. Now Pranav Mistry of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the solution. He gets that what we really want is to just pick up stuff from one machine and put in the other, as we do with a physical object.

Mistry has designed a system to make this as simple as it could possibly be. 'The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving it in the user's body,' he says. 'Next, the user touches the other device to which they want to paste the saved content.'"