Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Internet by light promises to leave Wi-Fi eating dust

The Li-Fi technology uses the frequencies generated by LED lights to beam information through the air (AFP Photo/Sam Yeh
Barcelona (AFP) - Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp -- that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology.
French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the technology at the Mobile World Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona. As soon as a smartphone was placed under an office lamp, it started playing a video.
The big advantage of Li-Fi, short for "light fidelity", is its lightning speed.

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