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Apple looks forward to add RF communications to everything
Apple looks forward to add RF communications to everything
Apple is well known for a very tight integration of it’s various devices. Your iMac, iPod, Apple TV, Airport and other Apple devices all work seamlessly within your home. But what happens when you are outside your home? So far Apple did not have much experience integrating various ...
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Apple Patent Forsees Gadget RF Connectivity Everywhere, From Shirts to Cars [RF Everywhere]
Gizmodo — ... Possible? We'll have to wait and see. But if Apple's vision proves accurate, and your iPod ends up talking to your shoes which then hook themselves up to your in-car network, then we'll all be bathed in even more RF waves than we are now. [Unwiredview] ...

Apple Patent Application Reveals RF Module Plans, Connectivity
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... 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. Read - United States Patent Office [Unwired View]

Apple patent application reveals grandiose RF module plans
Engadget — ... to the internet. That would include devices with both short range (WiFi and Bluetooth) and long range (GSM, EDGE, etc) communications capabilities, as well as devices with just short range modules, which would be able to communicate with and identify themselves to any other modules around and, potentially, piggyback their way onto the internet. Ambitious, to be sure, but we think Apple may have to come up with a catchier t-shirt slogan if they really want to sell it. [Via Unwired View] ...

Apple quiere chips de RF en dispositivos de todo tipo
Celularis — ... de los operadores. Prevee que se puedan conectar, a través de una PAN (Red de Área Personal), casi cualquier equipo y accesorio a los teléfonos celulares, iPhone, iPods y notebooks que tengan conectividad 3G, Edge, GSM, WiMax, Bluetooth, WiFi, UWB, etc, para acceder a internet por la vía más sencilla. ¿Imaginábamos un mundo convergente en torno del iPhone 3G?… Steve Jobs ya lo imaginó antes, y lo patentó! Vía ENgadget y UnwiredView ...

Apple patent shows RF embedded all over the place
CrunchGear — ... An Apple patent application is currently burning up the Internet, what with the possibility that we’ll all, one day, be outfitted with a series of tiny RF transmitters. The application, named “Personal area network systems and devices and methods for use thereof,” envisions a world where our shoes, socks, shirts, iPods, MacBooks and everything else are connected via radio, so that they’re able to send and receive data as easy as the day is long, wherever we may be. ...

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