<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hello all</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thought I should share this </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Interesting times we live in๐</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp -- that is the<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">revolutionary wireless technology.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the technology at the Mobile World<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Congress, the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona. As soon as a<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">smartphone was placed under an office lamp, it started playing a video.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The big advantage of Li-Fi, short for "light fidelity", is its lightning<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">speed.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of over 200 Gbps -- fast<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">enough to "download the equivalent of 23 DVDs in one second", the founder<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and head of Oledcomm, Suat Topsu, told AFP.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Li-Fi allows speeds that are 100 times faster than Wi-Fi" which uses radio<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">waves to transmit data, he added.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The technology uses the frequencies generated by LED bulbs -- which flicker<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">on and off imperceptibly thousands of times a second -- to beam information<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">through the air, leading it to be dubbed the "digital equivalent of Morse<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Code".<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It started making its way out of laboratories in 2015 to be tested in<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">everyday settings in France, a Li-Fi pioneer, such as a museums and shopping<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">malls. It has also seen test runs in Belgium, Estonia and India.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dutch medical equipment and lighting group Philips is reportedly interested<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">in the technology and Apple may integrate it in its next smartphone, the<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iPhone7, due out at the end of the year, according to tech media.<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With analysts predicting the number of objects that are connected to the<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Internet soaring to 50 million by 2020 and the spectrum for radio waves used<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by Wi-Fi in short supply, Li-Fi offers a viable alternative, according to<br></span></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">its promoters.</span></font></blockquote></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>"The best of you are those who are best to the women" Mohammad SAW <div><br><div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></div></body></html>