On mystical artifacts in the MCU

So, so far in the MCU we have the Tesseract/cosmic cube, and a bunch of things shown really quickly in Thor, including the Infinity Gauntlet which is likely to become a huge deal in future movies. The staff Loki used in the Avengers movie looks like it may have been powered by the Tesseract, but it also looks like it could have been the mind stone/gem (one of the infinity gems that go with the infinity gauntlet). The mind stone angle would explain why Loki was able to brainwash the good guys into becoming his "personal flying monkeys."

In Iron Man 3, there's a lot of talk of what the Mandarin's rings are going to be like. Will they be magical? Alien? Will they have powers? Will they just be normal rings?

So my thought is...what if the Mandarin's rings are somehow connected to the Infinity Gems? Obviously, the big "what?" in there is that there are 10 rings and only 6 gems (or 7, depending on what you're reading). I feel like this could be worked around if they put some effort into it. Like, maybe some rings are multiple, like one on each hand and he's missing one, or maybe some are just rings to fill out the look or something lol. I think the whole one on each hand with one missing works better. But wouldn't that be neat and some nice continuity? Space, Time, Reality, Mind, Soul, and Power, maybe he's missing the Power Stone so he can't get up to his full potential or something.

Just a thought I was having about how to do the rings.