IBTimes: Li-Fi, a super-fast alternative to Wi-Fi, is finally moving from research labs to the real world after an Estonian startup implemented the technology within a commercial context. Velmenni, a recent finalist at the Slush 100 startup competition in Helsinki, revealed that it has begun trialling the technology within offices and industrial environments in Tallinn.
Live, laugh, Li-Fi.
Researchers in Saudi Arabia have developed a white light laser that sends data hundreds of times faster than the average Wi-Fi connection. They claim it's able to move 2 GB per second, or the size of a feature-length movie, faster than it's taken you to finish reading the last three words of this sentence.
The LiFi-X is the third generation of pureLiFi products and consisting of an access point that connects to any LED light, as well as a business card sized dongle can be operated from any USB 2.0 enabled mobile device – providing a level of user experience that is comparable and more secure than existing wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi.
With the iPhone 7 to land later this year, it looks like Apple has been experimenting with light-based wireless data technology, Li-Fi, for it's new handset.
