The story of the Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr is well known. In 1942 she obtained the US Patent 2,292,387 together with George Antheil for a wireless “Secret Communication System“ called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum – FHSS.
When she finally received the “Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award“ in 1997 for this invention, she remarked:
“It’s about time“.
Taken aback by this fact I realised that it was about time for me to create this object “Frequency Hopping Fantasy“ with artistic freedom to pay tribute to Hedy Lamarr, bearing in mind the Foundation’s objective: “The protection of civil liberties, such as privacy and freedom of expression, as new communications technologies emerge”.
