“Microsoft’s SPOT smart objects might indeed be tomorrow’s technology – if you were living in the 1980’s. That’s because the technology used in SPOT, FM subcarrier transmission, was originally used as a last-gasp effort by the Atari 2600 to distribute games wirelessly over the radio.” (via ExtremeTech)

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