TED Talks

Harald Haas: A breakthrough new kind of wireless Internet

TV-PG
2015 • E191    Nov 5, 2015    15m
What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf LEDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have pioneered a new technology that transmits data using light, and it may just be the key to bridging the digital divide. Take a look at what the future of the Internet could look like.

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