Wi-fi with T-rays?

Wi-fi is the one thing that no one can live without. Whether it's accessing the internet or sending an e-mail; it will always be there. But at times it gets painfully slow. Just a click away from winning a game and suddenly your wi-fi connection has been lost. All that is about to change.


Researchers in Japan, the country best known for high-tech gadgets, have smashed a world record for data transmission speeds in terahertz. The data rate was astonishingly 20 times higher than the best wi-fi standard. The lower frequency band are usually much slower and harder to connect to. Internet consumers are hungrier by the minute for higher data transmission speeds wherever they go. This has now become a goal for manufacturers to make sure they meet their customers demands. T-rays lie between microwave and far-infrared technology regions of the spectrum; they are also unregulated by telecommunication agencies. The T-rays make use of very high frequencies, from 300 gigahertz; which is 60 times higher than the current wi-fi standard, to 3 Thz.

Terahertz penetrate through materials like x-rays, they do deposit less energy but make less damage in the process. Before, objects with T-rays were very bulky, however, this is about to change. Researchers are developing smaller devices which contain T-rays, allowing easy holding of the device. No more wi-fi problems then, or maybe?