Standardized Transdermal Ports
I've been reading a lot about the transdermal projects that @chironex and @glims have talked about briefly about on the forum. @garethnelsonuk has also been working on his implantable Edison and CyborgNet projects. The latter being about the standardization in terms of software and communication. What about hardware? More specifically transdermal charging and data transfer.
Do we feel the need for a standardized transdermal port for charging and data transfer?
Or rather would the existing Micro-B and (eventually) Type-C secure these needs?
If so, what sort of characteristics could this port have?
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With 4 components (tiny ic+led+PIN diode+resistor) you can get 115kBaud.
With a few more components you can get close to one Mbit. Using some less common stuff you can get up to 4 Mbit while keeping the circuit tiny.
Similar works for power. Qi is all fine and candy but designed for charging stuff like phones. It's easy to design something with better magnetic coupling, allowing to transfer more power with less losses and smaller size. Like this would be on the scale of around 1.5cm.
http://home.arcor.de/positiveelectron/files/couple.png
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Getting optical 115kBit/s (without fibers) and power supply would work even without going transdermal.
Fiber-optics often require good alignment and interface size increases with speed (same with the price)