In an interesting turn, the UWB/WiMedia folks are teaming up with the Bluetooth folks to create a next-gen Bluetooth that is backwards compatible. It’s actually kind of difficult, reading this, to figure out where Bluetooth will stop and UWB will start.
Obviously there are a number of Bluetooth devices and Bluetooth fans out there, and this merger gives them a new method for data transfer and device interconnection that uses a relatively interference-free cycling series of channels, thanks to UWB, and a large install base.
Bluetooth to go UWB [ArsTechnica]
