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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Therman's Tollboot

An engineer in the nassa man space flight network, mario cardulo, began fiddling with some primitive versions of r f i d tags. He created a new kind of transponder that would transmit information between a tag and an antenna,. But also contain a small load of data in inside of a memory chip. And again, it wouldn't have a battery. Very, very easy to use and very versatile. When he came up with this technology, the thing he thought about was tollboots.

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