Li-Fi

[zappaDPJ]

Li-Fi has just been tested in the real world, and it's 100 times faster than Wi-Fi

Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi - a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) - in the coming months. With scientists achieving speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi earlier this year, the potential for this technology to change everything about the way we use the Internet is huge.

And now, scientists have taken Li-Fi out of the lab for the first time, trialling it in offices and industrial environments in Tallinn, Estonia, reporting that they can achieve data transmission at 1 GB per second - that's 100 times faster than current average Wi-Fi speeds.

http://www.sciencealert.com/li-fi-tested-in-the-real-world-for-the-first-time-is-100-times-faster-than-wi-fi

[Simon]

They will probably find out in years to come that it causes cancer.   

[Steve]

I presume it needs line of sight which may limit it's use in the home environment

[Technical Ben]

They will probably find out in years to come that it causes cancer.   

No nothing that bad.

However it would allow the rockers to not feel alone in loosing one of their senses... I predict a lot of blindness in our future. 

[Technical Ben]

I presume it needs line of sight which may limit it's use in the home environment

And anywhere outside with pigeon or seagulls!