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Internet By Light Promises To Leave Wi-Fi Eating Dust (yahoo.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the let-there-be-light dept.

schwit1 writes: Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp - that is the promise of Li-Fi, short for 'light fidelity,' which features Internet access that is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi. French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the revolutionary wireless technology at the Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, this week. As soon as this smartphone was placed under an office lamp, it started playing a video. The big advantage of Li-Fi is theoretical speeds of over 200 Gbps.

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  1. Re:So fucking what by Jack9 · · Score: 3, Informative

    So fucking what is what I started at as well.

    Let's say it has better transmission rates and built in physical security of a sort. Imagine a small lamp device that you put your hand under and get a Johnny Mnemonic style archive loaded into your biometric storage/id chip. Tapping into that signal would be difficult.

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  2. Re:So fucking what by Khyber · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sharks with Lasers was a meme here on /. well before Redshit existed.

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