[Am-info] ZDNet: Story: Ultrawideband: How it could watch you in your boudoir

[Fred A. Miller]

Ultrawideband: How it could watch you in your boudoir


The Federal Communications Commission last week 

approved a new wireless technology called ultrawideband,

or UWB. If telling you about it makes you feel like you've 

stepped into a Ron Popeil commercial ("It slices, it dices, 

it juliennes fries!"), well, there's a reason: Ultrawideband 

doesn't seem to have met an application it doesn't like.
 
It's being touted for use in connecting PDAs, cell phones, 

and other peripherals by both local area and personal 

area networks. Its champions also see a role for it in 

collision-avoidance radar systems for cars and trucks. 

Or in medical imaging systems. Or in finding buried 

objects. The list of its possible uses goes on and on 

and on, until you get to the most controversial of 

apps: "seeing" what's going on inside a building from 

the outside. Like through a wall and right into your 

bedroom."

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2848758,00.html

-- 
Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org