| ▲ | reaperducer 4 hours ago | |
> The cards have no battery and aren’t self-powered in any way. Instead, the reader on the gate emits an electromagnetic field that powers the card just long enough to complete the transaction. Brillant! AT&T showed this in television commercials back in the 1980's. "Can you go through a toll booth without stopping? You will. And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T." | ||
| ▲ | toast0 an hour ago | parent [-] | |
The 90s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Will Lots of those things happened (maybe not faxing from the beach), but AT&T didn't bring us very many of them. | ||