notes, "that the original unlicensed device was a 'couch potato'–like remote control for radio receivers." So the 1939 Philco Mystery Control once again revealed its originality.} If all this bureaucratic infighting seems obscure, what followed from it is happily familiar. "The rules adopted," Marcus writes, "had a much greater impact than any of {their} advocates could ever have imagined at the time. They enabled the development of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the majority of cordless phones now sold in the US, and myriad other lesser-known niche
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