THE FUTURE OF GADGETS
TECHHUB
ON THE HORIZON
velmenni.com
LI-FI LIGHT BULB
A new, faster way
to transmit data
i-Fi – The
wireless
transmission
of data using light,
whether infrared, visible or
ultraviolet – is a technology
that was first mooted by Prof
Harald Haas at the University
of Edinburgh around five years
ago. So far no company has
managed to bring a consumer
Li-Fi product to market, but
now it looks like a start-up
called Velmenni may be the first
to do so. Velmenni is based in
Delhi, India and Tartu, Estonia,
and its engineers recently
demonstrated a
light bulb
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