'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi'

Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by rdtsc on Friday November 27, 2015 @11:11PM (#10639990)

Interesting, I just remembered about 10-15 years ago, I had laptop with "infrared" support. Never quite knew what that was for. But one day noticed in the lab I was working the HP printer had an IR window, after a quick search on the net, sure enough I could print a few pages using IR from my laptop. That's all I did with it and had forgotten it since.

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Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by thrownaway2424 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @12:00AM (#10640076)

Apple products used to (pre-2012) come with an infrared remote control. You could use the port for anything. I used mine to record the secret codes that the TV repair guy was punching into my set.

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Re:'Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi' by Animats on Saturday November 28, 2015 @12:38AM (#10640158)

HP had a whole line of infrared networking products in the 1990s. Little reddish domes on the ceilings were the access points. They never really caught on, but worked OK.

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