Incredible. It's the walkie-talkies today, it seems on.ft.com/4etcgCJ

More Hizbollah devices explode in Lebanon

[FREE TO READ] Fresh explosions, including in Beirut, follow assault that killed 12 and wounded thousands

There were killer pagers in my favourite episode of the 1960s TV series The Avengers (repeated a few years ago). The contrast between what was then futuristic tech & city gents in bowlers is surreal

And laptops and fingerprint scanners too, from some reports I have seen on the other place. Looks like things are about to get even messier.