“While setting-up wireless Wi-Fi network in your home now is much easier than it was few years ago, configuring all devices and establishing sufficient security protocols can still be pain in the … for average user. Now Apple has a solution how to make everything easy, automatic and secure – RFID tags,” Unwired View reports.
“The idea, described in Apple’s patent “RFID network arrangement” is simple. Put RFID transceiver into a network wireless base station such as Airport Express or Airport Extreme and put RFID tags on other devices that you want to connect to Wi-Fi network,” Unwired View reports.
Unwired View reports, “From a user stand point – you just bring you Macbook within a feet of your Airport Express and the network is set up. You don’t even have to have a Macbook on at the time. RFID info to the tag can be read/written without additional power source. Then you turn your laptop on and it’s already on the network… This may be the final piece in the puzzle to make Wi-Fi iPod a reality.”
Unwired View reports, “Looks like Apple did it again. The basic idea is so simple and obvious in hindsight, yet it opens so many new possibilities that there will be lot of people wondering ‘Why didn’t I think of that earlier.'”
Full article with link to the patent app here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iBulb” for the heads up.]
Living the dream…
I thought of that 10 years ago, but didn’t tell anyone. Sheeeesh!
Well that’s what Apple is good at. They take good ideas, make them easy to use and put them to really good use. They come up with some good designs too!
WOW
Apple lowers the technology barriers so that even Windows users will be able to fully setup a wi-fi network securely without having to read their usual 30 pages manuals with screenshots of IE and sequels and sequels of control panels in WIncrap.
They will be able after they finally switch, that is.
Nahh, they will complain that Macs are toys: look, they connect without having me spending the weekend figuring out how it should work, trying and proving it does not actually work that way, and suffering till I find a cumbersome recipe online that requires doing it again every now and then. Nahh, they are not real computers: too simple.
Wasn’t finished yet… It’s the opposite with MS. They’ve got the worlds best R&D unit, but all they can do is copy it in a cheasy way that messes everything up.
And remember, if you don’t want RFID in your passport or Airport Extreme Base Station, just put it in the microwave for a minute or two!
Well, Microsoft researchers have invented a remote camera that can shoot and stitch 4 gigabyte images that you can zoom in on.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/microsoft_research_techfe.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
It gives them a break from trying to figure out how to further enhance Solitaire and Minesweeper.
“but all they can do is copy it in a cheasy way that messes everything up.”
I love chease. I usually get extra when I order a pizza.
Only Apple would try to make something so drop-dead simple that a grandmother could do it even easier to use!
I guess they are shooting for the retarded grandmother crowd, too.
getting big brother shivers as I write this, but boy – it would be nice if our library’s alarm went off if someone took off with my laptop..
or, if you could follow your stolen laptop on Google maps..
RFID’s, Bio Metircs, GPS, Photo recognition, two way displays, all patents or annoucement from Apple. The final realization of 1984, and from the very company that ran the Ad denouncing IBM as big brother. Brrr! It’s a brave new world
Apple is copying…AGAIN.
Philips Semiconductor, now NXP, has had this “on the books” for a long time. Here’s a link to their page describing it:
http://www.nxp.com/applications/connectivity/nfc_mobile/network_setup/index.html
“The basic idea is so simple and obvious in hindsight, yet it opens so many new possibilities that there will be lot of people wondering ‘Why didn’t I think of that earlier.’…”
A lot of great innovations are obvious in hindsight, yet so few have the foresight to innovate.
“The basic idea is so simple and obvious in hindsight, yet it opens so many new possibilities that there will be lot of people wondering ‘Why didn’t I think of that earlier.’…”
A lot of great innovations are obvious in hindsight, yet so few have the foresight to innovate.
“The basic idea is so simple and obvious in hindsight, yet it opens so many new possibilities that there will be lot of people wondering ‘Why didn’t I think of that earlier.’…”
A lot of great innovations are obvious in hindsight, yet so few have the foresight to innovate.