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Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs
MikeChino writes "A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting data download rate of 230 megabits per second, and they expect to be able to double that speed in the near future. While the regular radio-frequency Wi-Fi most of us use currently is perfectly fine, it does have its flaws — it has a limited bandwidth that confines it to a certain spectrum and if you've ever had someone leech off of your connection, you know that it also leaks through walls. LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides."
It's the return of IrDA!
What happens if you cross the beams?
I tried that in my epilepsy classroom and everyone had a fit.
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
We do the same thing at work with Interns and flashlights.
I assume the 230Mb/s is for stuff like delivering digital video to your TV without plugging cables.
"Wow, this movie looks even better in digital!"
"Here, let me turn the lights out so we can wa...oh."
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't use plain text passwords.