[cfgeeks] And then there's Li-Fi...

[syberghost]

On 3/17/07, Kevin P. Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org> wrote:
>
> sensitive enough to detect individual photons. The data transmission
> rate was low, only 178 photons in 75 seconds, but the photons are able
> to travel longer distances in free space (potentially thousands of
> kilometers or more) than they are in fiber optic cables (100 km) before
> they become undetectable."

17 bytes per minute?  w00t, it's faster than those old Commodore 64
floppy drives!  :)