What is a spime you might ask?

A Spime is an object that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and interact with the world.  It is a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely identified object that sends data about itself and its environment in great quantities.

It was coined by author Bruce Sterling, The project OpenSpime wants to take this concept and provide an opensource communications protocol for Spimes and an Internet of Things. 

They have yet to release and API, etc but be on the lookout for what they come up with,  I have included a video interview of Bruce Sterling conducted by the creators of the OpenSpime project to give you a little better overview of the concept: