Submitted by mancinedinburgh t3_zfv7v7 in Futurology
mancinedinburgh OP t1_izdqusi wrote
Windows as modems? Swiss scientists recently announced they had created windows that convert sunlight directly into electricity. This seems to be in a similar vein, whereby polarisation of sunlight is converted into binary code used to send signals to devices in a particular room. Goodbye router boxes? Perhaps. It sounds cool though to me that wireless Internet could be provided to entire offices or homes through adapted glass windows.
nospamkhanman t1_izeucli wrote
> sounds cool though to me that wireless Internet could be provided to entire offices or homes through adapted glass windows.
For one, night exists.
The other thing is, it's probably more efficient for the windows to just convert the solar energy directly to electricity and power tiny wireless access points.
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Flaky-Fish6922 t1_iziccn6 wrote
or if for some reason you're really hellbent on using light as a medium for transmission, an infrared system. feels a lot like they has a solution and went looking for a problem.
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