If you’ve just bought some all-singing, all-dancing, fancy fibre optic superfast broadband you might be about to lose your sh*t.
Very soon it’s going to look slower than that p*ss poor dial up connection we all had back in the 90s.
You’re probably going to want to rip it out and throw it under the nearest bus – that’s because techies have just successfully tested the next generation of superfast broadband.
Forget Wi-Fi…and meet Li-Fi, which scientists say is more than 100 times faster at sending data than the best broadband currently on offer.
Incredibly it can all work off a simple LED lightbulb, according to IBTimes.
Li-Fi, which stands for Light-Fidelity, sends data through a beam of light rather than via radio waves and can send information as fast as 3GB per second.
That means you could download a whole film in HD in the blink of an eye.
It is believed this speed could even be tripled by splitting the beams into channels.
The inventor of the technology Professor Harald Haas, of the University of Edinburgh, gave a TED Talk about his idea back in 2011.
Very interesting stuff…
