Hedy Lamarr: `Hedy's Folly' bares a most improbable inventor

A new book details how the actress helped invent spread-spectrum radio technology, the precursor for modern wireless communications.Hedy Lamarr, Old Hollywood sex symbol, had a brain. It's a fact that may be nearly as overlooked as the inventor's wartime creation: landmark technology that was a precursor to Bluetooth. It's not surprising that she's known best for her sultry personaThis was one of the ideas expressed by Uwe Hasebrink, Professor of empirical communication

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