Name: This lamp beams internet to your laptop
Uploaded: 2018-01-10T01:19:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
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- This lamp beams the internet down to your computer.

It's called MyLiFi and that sounds like Wi-Fi

except it does it without wireless radio.

If you have a TV remote, you know it uses infrared

This is the same thing but doing way more.

It uses infrared to send the internet down to computer

and then from your computer, back up to the lamp,

and then out to your router and to whatever website

And they told me that it won't install anything.

So let me see if I can, yeah wait, it's blinking

green right now and I'm just gonna go to the Verge.

there's just this infrared that is really short range.

and it's going to be a lot harder to monitor

They're selling a pro version that encrypts

The other benefit is supposed to be a health one,

Now very important to know that radio waves

are not actually known to be harmful to the human body.

But if you're a person who worries about these things,

The downside though is that, at least for this

This is a desk lamp and if I move it too far away,

you can see these lights start to go down to show

The company Oledcomm plans to introduce more lights

They're gonna do ceiling lights and wall lights.

They imagine that eventually we will light up an entire

room using these, and also get your internet that way,

which will give you a little bit more range of movement.

That might also hurt the security element a little bit,

but it still won't go through walls and so it's gonna be

confined to whichever room you would set up in.

For the time being it seems like it is maybe best for like

a really crazy business person, who like wants

a small range of movement and the security element.

It is sort of weird, because you could just plug it in

The lamp itself is a pretty standard smart desk lamp.

It can change between warm and cool color temperatures.

You can set a timer to turn it on and off over time.

You can also use an app to control when the internet

That's actually kind of one of the weirder things.

In order to manage the lamp, you need to use an app

and to use the app, you have to use your phone

There's also a web app so you could theoretically

but if you're trying to totally avoid Wi-Fi

The selling point here is really security.

You could just use an ethernet cord instead,

but there's something very neat about having

You can go there and back it for 840 dollars

That's supposed to be available sometime later this year.