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this lamp beams the internet down to your computer it's called my life I and that sounds like Wi-Fi except it does it without wireless radio it uses light instead if you have a TV remote you know use infrared to beam out you know changes to the channel this is the same thing but doing way more it uses infrared to stand the internet down to computer and then from your computer back up to a lamp and then out to your router and to whatever website you're trying to use so we're sitting here at CES and we're gonna try it out this is my own laptop I just turned Wi-Fi off I don't have an internet connection so when you choose this dongle I'm gonna plug it into my computer to the actual USB port and they told me that I won't need to install anything it should just work so let me see if I can yeah wait it's blinking green right now and I'm just gonna go to the verge I think it's loading the verge yeah I just pulled up our website it works that's cool it shows me a few big benefits here one is security right so instead of having a Wi-Fi network that somebody can tap into there's just this infrared that is really short range it's going from here to here and it's going to be a lot harder to monitor what you're doing they're also selling a pro version that encrypts all the traffic to the other benefit is supposed to get both one because there aren't radio waves now very important to know that radio waves are not actually known to be harmful to the human body so that's not really a benefit but if you are a person who worries about these things you know the option is there the downside though is that at least for this initial version it's it's very short-range this is a desk lamp and if I move it too far away you can see these lights start to go down to show that my signal is breaking the company OLED comm plans to introduce more lights over time they're gonna do ceiling lights and wall lights when they imagine that eventually we were to light up an entire room using these and also you know get your in it that way which will give you a little bit more range of movement that might also hurt the security but it still won't go through walls and so it's gonna be confined to a chef review it set up it 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 is sort of weird because you could just plug it in Ethernet jack into your computer because that's really what this is if you see this yellow cable over here that's just an Ethernet jack it's actually powering the lamp to the lamp itself is a pretty standard smart desk lamp it can change between warm and cool color temperatures so from bluer to more orange you can set a timer to turn it on and off over time you can also use an app to control when the internet connection is activated that's actually one of the weirder things in order to me manners of the lamp you need to use an app and to use the app you have to use your phone which requires Wi-Fi there's also a web app so you could theoretically then go to a hardwired connection but if you're trying to totally avoid Wi-Fi that's there's just really not a possibility so the selling point here is really the security you could just using ethernet cord it's dead but there's something very neat about having this stylish lamp my fly is launching on IndieGoGo is actually already live you can go there and back it for eight hundred and forty dollars to get the lamp and the dongle is supposed to be available sometime later this year you