Inventor hailed for light bulb wi-fi

A University engineer has been named among the top inventors in the world in high-profile publications. Both TIME and the Huffington Post's reviews of the world's best new technologies have featured Professor Harald Haas' system of wirelessly transmitting an internet signal through lights may be switched on and off many times per second, to develop their technique, known as Li-Fi. The system uses electronics to harness the variable light intensity in the bulbs to transmit data wirelessly. Top ideas. TIME magazine described Professor Haas' idea as among the top 50 inventions of the year. The magazine said: 'Like many other great inventors, Haas developed a solution [to carrying increasing amounts of data] using things we have in abundance: chiefly the world's 14 billion light bulbs.' In an article in the Huffington Post, Li-Fi was listed among 18 groundbreaking ideas to watch in 2012. Professor Haas was invited to contribute a blog entry for the Post's website.
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