Your phone will be with you...always

Japan Telecom has come up with a system that uses IPv6 in a way that's either a boon or a ball and chain depending on how you look at it. Each phone in the office has an RFID tag attached to it; you carry around a notebook PC with a tag reader. Scanning the tag on the phone re-routes all calls to your new location. Great if you're a salaryman targeted for restructuring and you're hopping around other people's unused desks since they took yours away, perhaps, but for the rest of us it's another attack on those brief moments of respite to be gained by finding a deserted cubicle and hunkering down for a quick nap. And besides, WiFi cellphones that hook into the office phone network are just around the corner; carrying one of those has to be better than lugging a laptop around, and probably not much more expensive than the RFID tags and readers.