Light bulb networks could be the next WiFi (19)
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Filed under: Networking If researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering have their way, light bulbs of the future may be the highway your data gets carried along. A team at the school is working on low-power LEDs which could utilize an optical communication system to carry data wirelessly. Using a technique which rapidly switches the LEDs on and off data transmissions could be made via imperceptible -- yet undoubtedly brain-scrambling -- flickering patterns, and ...
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Hao Chen said:
Awesome! No more streaming horror movies in the dark though. :)
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Martijn said:
This would be awesome
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Andy Buckingham said:
Interesting concept