In a world where social media and the Internet dominate communication, news and information-gathering, Wi-Fi internet has become a basic necessity in life, at least, for those who are connected to the cyber world by a string.

However, while Wi-Fi connections can be at times unstable, there is a new technology that could put today's internet streaming to shame: meet Li-Fi.

Science Alert said the Li-Fi is a wireless technology that transmits data using visible light communication (VLC). In the coming months, more information about it will be released, but as of now, scientists have reported achieving internet speeds of up to 224 gigabits per second; this potential to the world of technology is huge.

Li-Fi has only been taken out of the lab, with trials in offices and industrial environments in Tallinn, Estonia. Scientists reported that they can now achieve data transmission at 1GB per second, making it 100 times faster than the current average Wi-Fi speed.

Estonian Tech company, Velmenni CEO Deepak Solanki, told the International Business Times, "We are doing a few pilot projects within different industries where we can utilise the VLC technology."

He added, "Currently we have designed a smart lighting solution for an industrial environment where the data communication is done through light. We are also doing a pilot project with a private client where we are setting up a Li-Fi network to access the Internet in their office space."

Li-Fi was invented in 2011 by University of Edinburgh's, Harald Hass. He demonstrated his invention by flickering light from a single LED, which could transmit far more data than a cellular tower. It is said to work as an advanced form of the Morse code, only instead of relaying secret messages, it can be used to write and transmit data in binary code.

Fox News noted, however, that the Li-Fi technology, despite being faster than Wi-Fi, is not going to replace today's technology overnight. The outlet noted that transition will take time, as devices will have to be retrofitted with new technology to make them compatible with Li-Fi.

To do this, Haas said in his TedGlobal Talk in 2011, "it's this symbiosis that I personally believe could solve the four essential problems that face us in wireless communication these days. And in the future, you would not only have 14 billion light bulbs, you may have 14 billion Li-Fis deployed worldwide -- for a cleaner, a greener, and even a brighter future."

Check out his talk below: