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Forget WiFi and Bluetooth: you can transfer images via radio like in 1989!
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Forget WiFi and Bluetooth: you can transfer images via radio like in 1989!

If you find how technology works fascinating, you might want to check out YouTuber – and digital MacGyver – @JanusCycle’s video, where it manages to send images between two phones via an analog radio. The video in question was released in 2022, but I just discovered it and it blew me away.

You may or may not know that many of the best camera phones have a built-in FM radio receiver. As the channel explains, although much of the world relies on digital radio formats like HD radio and DAB, some countries still rely heavily on analog FM radio.