As should be clear by now, patent application land is quite a bit different than actual product land, but that’s never stopped companies from devising their share of ambitious ideas and, in the case of Apple, perhaps more than its share. Its latest describes an all-encompassing “personal area network” that would construct use of RF modules in everything to communicate with each other and connect to the Net. That would include devices with both short range (WiFi and Bluetooth) and distant 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 Web. Ambitious, to be certain, but we think Apple may have to come up with a catchier t-shirt slogan whether they really want to sell it.

[Via Unwired View]