http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-...witch-1.1024575
It takes bright ideas to the nth degree.
For what a world it would be if we could all access the internet not through clunky wireless routers and the millions of miles of spaghetti-like cables buried under our streets and fields, but through the golden rays of the electric light bulbs that are in every room in every one of our homes.
Scientists working at Edinburgh University have discovered a way of transmitting wireless data through lightbulbs, an invention that could revolutionise the way we receive the internet.
The discovery is called D-Light (data light) and uses the new light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that are expected to replace the incandescent models in use. The traditional bulb is banned in parts of the EU due to its wasteful use of energy.
As well as revolutionising internet reception, it would put an end to the potentially harmful electromagnetic pollution emitted by wireless internet routers and has raised the prospect of ubiquitous wireless access, transmitted through streetlights.
It should be so cheap that it
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-...witch-1.1024575
It takes bright ideas to the nth degree.
For what a world it would be if we could all access the internet not through clunky wireless routers and the millions of miles of spaghetti-like cables buried under our streets and fields, but through the golden rays of the electric light bulbs that are in every room in every one of our homes.
Scientists working at Edinburgh University have discovered a way of transmitting wireless data through lightbulbs, an invention that could revolutionise the way we receive the internet.
The discovery is called D-Light (data light) and uses the new light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that are expected to replace the incandescent models in use. The traditional bulb is banned in parts of the EU due to its wasteful use of energy.
As well as revolutionising internet reception, it would put an end to the potentially harmful electromagnetic pollution emitted by wireless internet routers and has raised the prospect of ubiquitous wireless access, transmitted through streetlights.
It should be so cheap that it