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Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress and also an important inventor.
She helped create a technology called frequency-hopping, which allows signals to switch between different frequencies to avoid interference or being blocked. This invention helped create modern wireless communication, including WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Even though she was well known for acting, her work as an inventor has had a lasting impact on how people communicate today.