He wants to build a system that could be used for a PAN (Personal Area Network). To do this he’ll have to figure out a way to build the system inexpensively and using less than a watt of power.

A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN for short) is a low-range wireless network that covers an area of only a few dozen meters. This network is generally used for linking peripheral devices (like ...

Most of us use a Personal Area Network (PAN) in our daily routines in front of our desktop and notebook PCs. PANs are technically defined as any network used to communicate with other slave devices ...

Grown right out of a Japanese petri dish, Firmo is NTT's idea of a device that transforms the human body into its own truly personal area network (PAN), allowing people to communicate with devices ...