The interest in the ultra-wideband (UWB) technology as a potential wireless standard has been on the decline, but it could be retuned with the need of an ultra-low power low-cost transceiver system for wireless body area network (WBAN) and wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Promising areas of the UWB applications lie in sub-nJ/bit transceivers, Gb/s proximity communications, low power sensor networks, and mobile healthcare systems. In this paper, a brief overview of the UWB technology and some useful features for next-generation short-range communication systems are discussed.