Soon, it was: Hackers began posting YouTube videos of their refinements of his technique, squeezing the necessary hardware into an inconspicuous iPhone case or the body of a dry-erase marker.

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Another team of researchers squeezed it into the body of an inconspicuous dry-erase marker.

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