Smart windows that can polarize sunlight could offer a low energy alternative to Wi-Fi
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Sunshine streaming through a window could be directly harnessed for wireless data transmission to electronic devices.
"We've got a line in the sky"
Ugh moment: "Basem Shihada had been exploring data encoding into an artificial light source when he had the lightbulb moment to use sunshine." "According to the team's calculations, the proposed setup could transmit data at a rate of 16 kilobits per second" <-- OK, not replacing my Wi-Fi anyway