Editor's Pick: WiFi, Move Over - Here Comes LiFi

WiFi, Move Over - Here Comes LiFi

Jack M. Germain Sep 16, 2015 5:00 AM PT

Disney researchers last week demonstrated Linux Light Bulbs -- a protocol for a communications system that transmits data using visible light communication, or VLC, technology. Linux Light Bulbs can communicate with each other and with other VLC devices -- such as toys, wearables and clothing -- over the Internet Protocol, functioning as a LiFi network in much the same way that WiFi works. [More...]

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