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...this is far from WiFi enabling your underwear.

"Now Arbabian envisions networks of these radio chips deployed every meter or so throughout a house (they would have to be set close to one another because high-frequency signals don't travel far)."

These things are going to require higher power transceiver stations to control, relay, and provide power.

Just as we need WiFi access points everywhere, we'd need AntRadio access points everywhere, and at a considerably higher density.

How is this significantly different from RFID (other than two-way operation)? The article makes it sounds as if they've made several successive semiconductor breakthroughs, but I don't know enough to judge whether it's overblown.