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At the beginning of the Cold War, musical inventor Leon Theremin managed to bug the US embassy in Moscow. His device is a predecessor of a technology that surrounds us every day.
At the beginning of the Cold War, musical inventor Leon Theremin managed to bug the US embassy in Moscow. The ingenious device he used is a predecessor of a humble technology that surrounds us every day: the Radio-Frequency Identification tag. Tim Harford asks if RFID is introducing an 'internet of things'. Or are its glory days behind it?
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Editor: Richard Vadon
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