Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a company has demonstrated a new form of wireless communication that uses light instead of radio waves. "Its inventor, St. Cloud resident John Pederson, says visible-light embedded wireless data communication is the next step in the evolution of wireless communications, one that will expand the possibilities in phone and computer use. The connection provides Web access with almost no wiring, better security and with speeds more than eight times faster than cable."

Comments

Re:huh?

[The Master Control P]

Use Tempest for Eliza and it'll transmit radio at you for real rather than generating a minor html error :P

Re:It's called free space optics

[should_be_linear]

And here is GPL'd design: http://ronja.twibright.com/