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The Wireless Power Week 2022, abbreviated WPW 2022, was an event organised by
the IEEE and held from 4 to 9 July 2022 at the University of Bordeaux.
It allowed engineers from around the world to share thoughts about the future
of wireless power transfer, and attend keynote speeches and presentations
from a wide variety of professors, students, researchers and other speakers.
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At this event, Crypto Museum showed some of the earliest examples of
wireless power transfer: a series of remotely powered
listening devices (bugs)
that had been developed in the 1950s in The Netherlands for the
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
under the name EASY CHAIR.
Also at the Crypto Museum stand was
a replica of The Thing
— a mysterious covert listening device developed
by the Russians and hidden inside a wooden carving of the Great Seal of the United States, that they gave their WWII ally as a token of friendship.
It allowed them to spy on the Americans for no less than seven years.
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Researchers at the University of Bordeax had suceeded in producing a working
replica of The Thing — including a full-size replica
of the wooden carving of the Great Seal itself — based on recently released
information by the FBI. And we were even able to demonstrate it to the
public.
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One of the highlights of the conference was the wine and cheese event on
Wednesday evening, held at the Bassins des Lumières, right at the heart of Bordeaux close to the river Garonne.
It is one of the few surviving intact concrete structures that were used
during World War II by the German and Italian Navies for their U-Boats.
Rather than destroying them, the former U-Boat docks have been converted
into a temple of art, where huge high-quality video projections are
used to create an impressive audio-visual show. It is great to see something
that was created for war, being used for someting peaceful as this.
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For this occasion, Crypto Museum brought an extremely
rare original Enigma M4 cipher machine,
that had been used aboard German U-Boats during the war. In the above image
it is visible at the centre. Needlesss to say that it attracted enormous
attention from the many conference visitors.
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