Systems and methods for communicating beyond communication range of a wearable computing device

An article of manufacture, comprising:

• a non-transitory storage medium bearing:
• one or more instructions for ascertaining presence of one or more external linking devices within communication range of a wearable computing device designed to be worn by a person, the communication range being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being externally defined by an enveloping boundary, where low-power signals transmitted by the wearable computing device being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary, the external linking device presence ascertaining module ascertaining the presence of the one or more external linking devices within the communication range of a wearable computing device based, at least in part, on one or more signals transmitted by the one or more external linking devices and received by the wearable computing device, and the one or more external linking devices designed to communicate beyond the communication range of the wearable computing device;
• one or more instructions for controlling the wearable computing device to communicate beyond the communication range using at least one of the one or more external linking devices that were ascertained to be within the communication range of the wearable computing device;
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• one or more instructions for controlling the wearable computing device to present one or more results of the communication beyond the communication range using the at least one of the one or more external linking devices.

A wearable computing device designed to be worn by a person, comprising:

• an external linking device presence ascertaining module configured to ascertain presence of one or more external linking devices within communication range of the wearable computing device, the communication range being a spatial volume that includes the wearable computing device and being externally defined by an enveloping boundary, where low-power signals transmitted by the wearable computing device being discernible over background noise within the enveloping boundary and not discernible over background noise outside the enveloping boundary, the external linking device presence ascertaining module further configured to ascertain the presence of the one or more external linking devices within the communication range of a wearable computing device based, at least in part, on one or more signals transmitted by the one or more external linking devices and received by the wearable computing device, and the one or more external linking devices designed to communicate beyond the communication range of the wearable computing device;
• a communicating device controlling module configured to control the wearable computing device to communicate beyond the communication range using at least one of the one or more external linking devices that were ascertained to be within the communication range of the wearable computing device;
• a presenting device controlling module configured to control the wearable computing device to present one or more results of the communication beyond the communication range using the at least one of the one or more external linking devices;
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• one or more components to facilitate coupling the wearable computing device to a portion of the person's body.