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Floating Personal Networks

UnwiredReview links to an Apple Patent application for, essentially, putting RFID tags in everything (phones, clothing, shoes, bags, cars, etc.), then networking them on the fly. Here's the abstract from the patent app:

Systems and methods are provided for interfacing wireless communications between two devices such that a device devoid of a relatively long-range communications protocol can access that protocol. This may be accomplished by providing a host device having relatively short-range communications circuitry integrated therein, which circuitry may be operative to communicate with relatively short-range communications circuitry of a multi-protocol or long-range communications device that also includes relatively long-range communications circuitry.

Not a completely novel idea, but a step towards actually developing them.

[via Gizmodo]