Improbable Insights

Someday, we'll be surrounded by an invisible network of our own, data constantly streaming into our devices, from our embedded sensors, and from the Internet. Personal Area Network technology seemed to stagnate, but now gets a new lease on life with wearables, connected sensors, and IoT. Eric and I try to make sense of the new PAN revolution. We also talk about a lot of tools, gaming, good books, great television, and not-so-great film. Join us for the ride. Meaning Bluetooth, Zigbee, 6LowPAN, Mesh networks… all of these technologies are in the process of converging. These represent the tech behind personal area networks, or PANs. With Bluetooth 5 set to become a standard by year's end, PANs will continue to reshape how we compute and gather information. Eric and I talk about how these techs interact (or don't), the problems with connectivity, terrible user interfaces, and what the heck are we going to do with all that data? Tools I've got a lot of tools on tap... an ergonomic keyboard with mechanical ke