samsung galaxy note 5 had a programmable ir blaster in it that could switch pretty much everything in my house on and off. quite literally the most useful functional phone ive ever had, especially which cheap but still bloody good tvs that 'universal' remotes cant control. still have it today but the poor screen is cracked up, battery life is down to 2.5 hours, no more cell capability, but by god did that thing get used heavily for all sorts of shit for almost a decade.
note 6 never happened (it was the first big ass bezelled galaxy instead samsung be all like 'oh shit we went too far with this one') note 7 had a habit of sploding when you sneezed at it, 8 didnt have it, so i think the 5 must have been the only one that had it that was released widely.
In addition to being cheaper, safer and faster than wifi, it does not need a router. All you need to do is point your mobile or tablet towards a light bulb to surf the web
Not really sure that's how it works. Maybe I misunderstood what the article describes, but you would still need some mechanism to get data to and from other computers. Light can go to and from the light bulb, but how is it transmitted from the bulb to another computer/server? Transmitting data via light is not new, fiberoptic has existed for decades, and is even used in supercomputers and super-clusters. You still need to ROUTE the data across a network to a specific destination and then back again.
the reason we have fiberoptic cable is because of the difficulty in accurately directing microscopically specifically small amounts of light in a microscopically specifically small direction with a microscopically small range of tolerance before the data rate drops to naught. and then theres the equipment you would need to translate from data to light to data, solvable you bet your buns but probably not useful after cost/benefit shit, (until someone smells a new grift - See NBN below)
fiber would be infinitely more useful, the rate it gets is down to the fact it deals with photos and already has that equipment commercially available and in australia literally everywhere (im on satellite because the copper between the house and the fiber at the road keeps ripping down, and being in an nbn area no one else needs sat so full service all times) plus you can bend that shit around all the corners rises and drops you need.
maybe they want it for ultra long distance comms, deep space network, dont know, but thats going to bring its own problems with dust and all kinds of other potential barriers for any of the flow of particles to go one way or the other, plus both ends have to be looking directly towards each other all the time over mind bendingly large distances.
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note 6 never happened (it was the first big ass bezelled galaxy instead samsung be all like 'oh shit we went too far with this one') note 7 had a habit of sploding when you sneezed at it, 8 didnt have it, so i think the 5 must have been the only one that had it that was released widely.
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Not really sure that's how it works.
Maybe I misunderstood what the article describes, but you would still need some mechanism to get data to and from other computers. Light can go to and from the light bulb, but how is it transmitted from the bulb to another computer/server?
Transmitting data via light is not new, fiberoptic has existed for decades, and is even used in supercomputers and super-clusters. You still need to ROUTE the data across a network to a specific destination and then back again.
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It requires line of sight, genius.
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the reason we have fiberoptic cable is because of the difficulty in accurately directing microscopically specifically small amounts of light in a microscopically specifically small direction with a microscopically small range of tolerance before the data rate drops to naught. and then theres the equipment you would need to translate from data to light to data, solvable you bet your buns but probably not useful after cost/benefit shit, (until someone smells a new grift - See NBN below)
fiber would be infinitely more useful, the rate it gets is down to the fact it deals with photos and already has that equipment commercially available and in australia literally everywhere (im on satellite because the copper between the house and the fiber at the road keeps ripping down, and being in an nbn area no one else needs sat so full service all times) plus you can bend that shit around all the corners rises and drops you need.
maybe they want it for ultra long distance comms, deep space network, dont know, but thats going to bring its own problems with dust and all kinds of other potential barriers for any of the flow of particles to go one way or the other, plus both ends have to be looking directly towards each other all the time over mind bendingly large distances.