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What is Li-Fi? šŸ’”The Next Big Thing for the Internet

Connecting to the internet can be as simple as turning on a light. This new technology could revolutionize Wi-Fi. #newtech #lifi #tech

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Connecting to the internet can be as simple as turning on a light. This new technology could revolutionize Wi-Fi. #newtech #lifi #tech

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  1. @jimmy_tree

    September 11, 2024 at 4:09 pm

    šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®šŸ˜®

  2. @LeonSKennedy7777

    September 11, 2024 at 4:11 pm

    what if you cover the light stream with an umbrella? ā˜‚ļø šŸ˜®

    • @crnelious

      September 11, 2024 at 4:32 pm

      get the same result as you covering the antenna on a router šŸ˜®

    • @LeonSKennedy7777

      September 11, 2024 at 5:15 pm

      @@crnelious the signal doesnā€™t stop if thereā€™s no direct connection to a router antenna. But youā€™re saying the visible light doesnā€™t need to be seen directly to continue receiving the signal? Like you can have a li-fi table lamp in one room and receive Internet from it in another room still?

      If so, it sounds like itā€™s just a wi-fi router that also outputs waves in the visible spectrum, but doesnā€™t actually use those visible light waves to deliver signals.

  3. @BRYANTDOOD

    September 11, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    Damn so I can just point my device to the sun and I got internet, now I can watch YouTube from Mars

  4. @exosmusic

    September 11, 2024 at 4:21 pm

    All WiFi works on this principle. Light is just an electromagnetic wave.

    • @JasonB808

      September 11, 2024 at 9:31 pm

      True, visible light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum. But light has a much higher frequency than the microwaves that modern WiFi emit. Thus higher bandwidth.

    • @homfes

      September 12, 2024 at 12:55 am

      Even if true, it needs to be differentiated from regular WIFI because users of Li-Fi must be aware of its limitations.. I imagine that there must be an unbroken line-of-sight path between the router and the transceiving port of the connected device.

  5. @PapaDikpill

    September 11, 2024 at 4:25 pm

    Itā€™s just fiber optics without the fiber.

    • @petermccavington8232

      September 12, 2024 at 7:02 pm

      Explain that. Yeah lol thatā€™s what I thought. You canā€™t šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

    • @sasgarbage7482

      September 13, 2024 at 2:48 pm

      The coolest explanation

  6. @SensoredRooster

    September 11, 2024 at 4:30 pm

    Please explain how this is more secure?

    • @PSYCHOV3N0M

      September 11, 2024 at 5:37 pm

      Youā€™re on the wrong channel for that info.

      šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

    • @bchoor

      September 12, 2024 at 1:29 am

      Canā€™t go through walls. Needs need be able to be seen. This was discussed in a 2011 Ted talk.

  7. @ThePIGuy-ri5hp

    September 11, 2024 at 4:37 pm

    Literally just a 60watt bulb connected to a eathernet to optic convertor box and the receiver is connected to the devicešŸ˜‚

  8. @linkcell

    September 11, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    I love that you can eat it.

  9. @mohammedgailan1656

    September 11, 2024 at 4:43 pm

    What if I want to sleep in a dark room & stay connected to LiFi šŸ’­

    • @Blank-54

      September 12, 2024 at 7:23 am

      buy router and shine light on it

    • @petermccavington8232

      September 12, 2024 at 7:03 pm

      Lights can be dimmed. Just like your brain capacity. Dimming tech 101 look it up.

    • @sasgarbage7482

      September 13, 2024 at 2:49 pm

      ā€‹@@petermccavington8232why insult with brain capacityšŸ˜…. Dim light depends how much, intensity etc, will it affect net speed etc

  10. @p3nd3rgast

    September 11, 2024 at 5:05 pm

    Ainā€™t no scrolling through tiktok at night with this one

    • @blackmedia7075

      September 12, 2024 at 9:22 am

      How do you use Tik Tok for it to require internet speeds faster than WiFi?

  11. @jeffreydurham2566

    September 11, 2024 at 5:06 pm

    This has been the next big thing for a while. I would say they have been working on this for at least ten years already.

  12. @user-ew6rs1tm7z

    September 11, 2024 at 5:39 pm

    So no Li Fi at night

  13. @YDGFX

    September 11, 2024 at 5:50 pm

    šŸ˜­ Imagine saying ā€œwho the F turned off the lights? turn them back on!ā€. šŸ¤ššŸ¾

  14. @loveadeola

    September 11, 2024 at 6:08 pm

    Iā€™m more concerned about the health impacts, especially long term.

    • @blackmedia7075

      September 12, 2024 at 9:24 am

      You donā€™t use light bulbs because of health concerns?

  15. @DateJust89

    September 11, 2024 at 6:26 pm

    Trisha, traditional WiFi also canā€™t be seen by the naked eye.

  16. @Kush-1ZL

    September 11, 2024 at 6:36 pm

    42 megabytes per second man thatā€™s slow internet speeds šŸ‘Ž

  17. @jerrynieves7689

    September 11, 2024 at 6:49 pm

    Damā€¦ she fine!!!

    • @TheSentientCloud

      September 14, 2024 at 8:17 am

      The protocols for Li-Fi do seem hot af, tbh

    • @TheSentientCloud

      September 14, 2024 at 8:18 am

      Being basked in the light of flickering data? fiiiiiiine af *drools*

  18. @killsville

    September 11, 2024 at 8:02 pm

    So Tesla was definitely ahead of his time and I think theyā€™re slowly feed dropping us his technologies from the numerous documents they stole! šŸ˜®

  19. @anthonypon

    September 11, 2024 at 11:32 pm

    how is it more secure????

    • @DannyFitzgeraldjr

      September 12, 2024 at 5:44 am

      I had assumed she meant the waves wonā€™t go outside the building. Now a neighbor canā€™t use your wifi. I assumed she meant more than that, but thatā€™s what I thought of.

  20. @MrOscar5690

    September 12, 2024 at 12:32 am

    Sounds like sci fi

  21. @lukasp.5243

    September 12, 2024 at 9:13 am

    Holy f* man. I expected her to talk about hot dogs. But then she became that combo and became 100% more attractive.

  22. @weroliera

    September 12, 2024 at 9:27 am

    More cancer

  23. @7_of_9

    September 12, 2024 at 1:36 pm

    Wow I remember CNET did an article on Li-Fi back in hmm over 9 years ago. Yeah now we have WiFi 7 and Li-Fi was tested vs slow wifi A/B/N

  24. @sasgarbage7482

    September 13, 2024 at 2:48 pm

    Is it available. šŸ˜…. I have been hearing it for years

  25. @FriendlyEagle7

    September 13, 2024 at 10:57 pm

    All lightbulbs already have this. They use it to spy on us. If you put foil over your windows to block all light theyā€™ll shoot little holes in it with lasers. God I wish I was joking or insane.

  26. @TheSentientCloud

    September 14, 2024 at 8:16 am

    Ok, so weā€™re just coming up withā€¦ more? Cybersecurity horrors? I guess this is legitimately safer than wi-fi, but I feel like this is *way* too easily disturbed by environmental conditions. Itā€™s just too hard to get this to transmit at a bitrate that one can correct for environmental fluctuations, dust on the sensor, etc. I donā€™t really see how this actually would create benefits deployed large scale that wi-fi doesnā€™t already solve. Iā€™d imagine using pulsed laser beams (no wires) across rooms/vast distances is a better conceptualization of ā€œli fiā€

    I can imagine this working in incredibly specific scenarios, such as in clean rooms and other incredibly environmentally controlled situations, but wide spread? Why? It doesnā€™t give any real benefit over wi-fi aside from being able to wirelessly transmit in a single, secure environment, where you want a 100% chance of there not being any leakage of dataā€“and even then the electromagnetic fluctuations of the light flickering can be picked up on by a sufficiently determined hacker.

    Still think lasers are a more sensible version of ā€œli fiā€ esp if we use cheap green lasers. Extremely cheap (comparatively) and if we can switch them fast enough they can essentially transmit information for as high as your horizon is. That being said, if a bird flies through the beam, youā€™re still kind of screwed.

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