Have you heard of this?

There is a strong possibility you will be connecting to the internet using it.
Wi-fi technology has changed the way the world can access the internet in ways previously hard to imagine.  Now there is a new game in town “Li-Fi” and it might be up to 100 times faster than wi-fi.  That seems like quite an accomplishment and would reduce slower upload and download speeds, especially when lots of people are accessing one router.  Here is a bit more about it:

Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi – a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) – in the coming months. With scientists achieving speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi earlier this year, the potential for this technology to change everything about the way we use the Internet is huge.

This is a bit more info on this technology before watching the video below.  And the crazy thing is that it is light-based:

And now, scientists have taken Li-Fi out of the lab for the first time, trialling it in offices and industrial environments in Tallinn, Estonia, reporting that they can achieve data transmission at 1 GB per second – that’s 100 times faster than current average Wi-Fi speeds.

The benefits of Li-Fi over Wi-Fi, other than potentially much faster speeds, is that because light cannot pass through walls, it makes it a whole lot more secure, and as Anthony Cuthbertson points out at IBTimes UK, this also means there’s less interference between devices.

We hope you like the video and will be posting updates as they come in about this new tech.

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info