Maybe I'm just dense, but I can't for the life of me figure out what advantages this provides. I definitely can't see why it would curb the demand for wireless access points, as the article states, unless the idea is that wi-fi NICs in hard-wired PCs will take their place, which ignores all the additional benefits of the AP/router model. What advantage do I gain by being able to use my television as an access point that can't be gained by just connecting it and every other device that wants to talk to it to a single wi-fi network? Not to mention the security nightmare of people walking around with phones that are constantly broadcasting as an access point. We have a big enough problem with people not securing the wireless access points they already have.

I guess it could replace Bluetooth as the way kids beam ringtones back and forth to each other, but beyond simplifying the ad-hoc connection methods that already exist, I just don't get it.