"Bomb Dowser" returns  - Iran have focused bipolar magnetic virus detector! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 11:49:43 am
content: Posted at 11:3811:38Iran's Guards unveil 'magnetic' virus detection toolhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52289273You can't make this shit up..In case it disappears when someone wakes up...QuoteSounds and look familiar:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 02:53:58 pm
content: Some people will believe anything! Be careful, you might get flamed for suggesting this is nonsense.A significant minority of people on this forum believe waving two metal rods around can locate water, better than chance! Thelast thread on thisturned into a shitstorm, because some people wouldn't listen to reason.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 03:10:16 pm
content: These last two posts gave me an instant headache.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 03:14:22 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on April 15, 2020, 03:10:16 pmThat'll be the 5G mate.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 03:16:03 pm
content: If Iran has one, the USA can't be out done surely. Maybe someone should propose such a magical magnetic device to Trump and he might promote it at the next press conference.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 03:16:38 pm
content: Quote from: paulca on April 15, 2020, 03:14:22 pmHahaha

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2020, 03:33:08 pm
content: Quote from: paulca on April 15, 2020, 03:14:22 pmOh no, don't bring up the 5G! We had real nutters pop up the same time as the dowsing crap (not naming names)!We must keep the sanity of this forum >-1...lest they return.

author: Daixiwen
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 10:14:48 am
content: It's missing a blockchain, I think it could bring up the accuracy to 95%

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 03:13:20 pm
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on April 16, 2020, 02:01:40 pmJust becauxe they're scammers doesn't somehow now make them t-.

author: Kleinstein
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 04:07:24 pm
content: 80% reliability at 100 m distance may work with an IR camera if one is optimistic, but hat would not so spectacular - though interesting where the Iran gets some.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 04:13:20 pm
content: Many people believe anything BBC writes.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 04:51:43 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on April 16, 2020, 04:13:20 pmNot these days. Bollocks Broadcasting Cunts

author: MadTux
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 05:23:19 pm
content: Maybe I should try selling that bullshit.From my experience, getting rich from stupid people is usually much easier than hard work

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 06:09:43 pm
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on April 16, 2020, 02:01:40 pmYou mean Trump? Sorry, I don't listen to him.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 16, 2020, 06:11:45 pm
content: Quote from: MadTux on April 16, 2020, 05:23:19 pmTrump will buy it, it'll be great he'll say, he's the bestkingpresident, total genius for figuring it out he'll say. Promising, miracle, fake news, china's fault. His new clothes are fine though.Well, everyone seemed to be trying to get the thread closed

author: Neomys Sapiens
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 06:41:10 pm
content: Quote from: paulca on April 15, 2020, 03:16:03 pmYes of course. Given the exemplary competence with which the situation is handled in those countries, that feat can be done by an empty box with a LED on it. Simple...everyone will be infected.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 06:59:38 pm
content: Right, can we stick to the technicalities or lack thereof please and ditch the politics and arguments about past threads!

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 07:25:04 pm
content: I would like to say, "it doesn't look like a small plastic case (similar to IR temperature meters), a simple radio aerial strapped to it. With a simple metal shield strapped on the other hand".But, I can't/won't.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:03:22 pm
content: That was the video that paulca's original BBC link pointed to before it got changed to general COVID news, glad it's finally in captivity.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:07:37 pm
content: Quote from: Gyro on April 19, 2020, 08:03:22 pmI wanted to link in the BBC one directly into the thread (as you described), but couldn't find a way of doing it. But, finally (somewhat recently), it has appeared on youtube.There was/is another, longer one (different), set in a hospital. But, I haven't been able to find it (again, seen it a couple of days ago).

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:11:57 pm
content: so where is the link? the BBC are a mess.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:13:32 pm
content: I can't find it (2nd video) on youtube (yet).But, searching my history, it is here (the other, good video).https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1250453534342033413

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:17:53 pm
content: If somebody'sreallylucky, they'll make it to court (like the fake bomb detector guy), but after such a public unveiling, I wouldn't lay odds on it!

author: Syntax Error
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:19:30 pm
content: A bipolar virus? This outperforms the field-effect bisexual virus used in the KickStarter version. Seriously, they could have upgraded the LED to a neo-pixel ring, so at least it looks like it's scanning/scamming. Maybe the telescopic aerial is for inserting up the nose?Fake bomb detector: The Mother of all Dodgy Technologyhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2020, 08:22:48 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on April 19, 2020, 08:11:57 pmI think my main additional source (I'd read it and the BBC article, a couple of days, ago approximately).Was/is here:https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/17/iran_coronavirus_detector/The new BBC 'scrolling'/paragraph-sections news pages thing (linked to by OP), doesn't seem to allow links to its direct articles (paragraphs, i.e. short news snippets, rather than linkable web pages), sorry.Also, it seems to have disappeared (from a look by me, through all apparently available pages it had. But it could be somewhere on the BBC website, I also tried searching for it).

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2020, 10:05:47 am
content: QuotePerhaps they should take them to court and sue them for IP violation.

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2020, 10:42:26 am
content: I just noticed the 'bipolar' word in the description

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2020, 10:51:07 am
content: Quote from: Zero999 on April 20, 2020, 10:05:47 amI don't think you can patent stupid.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2020, 11:23:55 pm
content: Quote from: daqq on April 20, 2020, 10:51:07 amIs this a challenge?

author: edy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2020, 04:51:35 am
content: NO NO NO!!!!! You are all missing the point! The purpose of these devices is to convince the public that they work, and then you can go around using them... When someone who is trying to conceal that they have COVID-19 symptoms sees one, they will give tell-tale signs (shifty eyes, fidgety, cold sweat) giving themselves up to the authorities. Like when people pass through border crossings, security or checkpoints and they are hiding something they will behave differently, nervous, etc. The bomb detector is useless but this device may actually work because it is used on people with psychological effects at play!!!!

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2020, 12:32:45 pm
content: Quote from: edy on April 21, 2020, 04:51:35 amYes... That's what confuses me. Apart from theOBVIOUSthat the 'Video' above is a load ofClap-Trap, WHAT is their apparent purpose or gain from fabricating or showing it?What large or secular 'group' or ignorant individuals are they trying to 'appease/appeal' toOr are they just trying to gain some 'Brownie-Points' with the rest of the World?? (No Horse out of Troy for me!!)

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2020, 07:24:45 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on April 20, 2020, 11:23:55 pmNope, you can't patent stupid for legal reasons:- prior art dating back millennia- stupid is in the public domain. To prove my point, talk with 10 randomly selected people for 10 minutes.

author: Syntax Error
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2020, 07:56:10 pm
content: That Iranian detector isn't of much less use than a contactless thermometer or a FLIR cameras at an airport. What? An issue with corana virus is detectingasymptomaticsufferers. Two thirds of asymptomatic infections will not show an obvious thermal response. You are likely to look 'feverish' on a FLIR camera if you've just run up to the airport gate, but not if you were infected and stood stationary in a check-in queue for an hour. The consequence is that highly contageous individuals might not show up on a detector, fake or real. Only a blood test is accurate - unless it's one of the fake ones now in circulation. I trust to voodoo over 5G.