MIY 'Quickie' notes are RFID-enabled Post-it Notes able to communicate their content to cellphones and beyond.
(MIT 'Quickie' notes video)
Science fiction fans may recall the transmit paper from Frank Herbert's The Godmakers.
Behind him there was the sound of a scratchy stylus rasping across transmit-paper as the Investigation-Adjustment operative made notes on the interview they had just completed. The paper was transmitting a record of the words to the operative's waiting ship.
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Will Whales Be Our First Contact?
'He had piloted the Adastra to its first contact with the civilization of another solar system.' - Murray Leinster, 1935.
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Musk Proposes Sites For Martian Cities
'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'