Fellow ham here: Would moving my shack into a chicken coop (i.e., Faraday cage) block all that pesky interference from switch-mode power supplies, LED fixtures, my RF-noisy-ass router, etc?!?
Couldn't read the entire article (paywalled), but thread alone doesn't emit RF in the absence of power and circuitry. Presumably the threads would be woven into an RFID (or similar) circuit that would re-radiate a particular code in the presence of an RF field?
I recall (some years back) that next to each Google reference was a link to a cached version of the referenced page, which was really useful when the page was no longer extant. I realize that the feature was a far cry from the granularity that an Internet Archive link can provide, but I've long wondered why that useful feature disappeared.
A computer with Windows installed is no longer a "personal computer"; instead, it's more like a terminal. So what *should* we now call "personal computers" with Windows installed?