Li-fi: 100 times faster than wi-fi

Harald Haas, a professor at Edinburgh University is a busy man. In 2011 he invented a wireless broadband technology that uses LEDs to send data at hundreds of times the speed of today’s wi-fi networks.

The system is known as li-fi (short for light fidelity) and offers compelling advantages over wi-fi.

Not only is it is more energy efficient, but it is also capable of up to 10,000 times the bandwidth of wi-fi. Many see li-fi as being complimentary to wi-fi .... http://www.stuff.co.nz