TARC - The first thought phone - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2013, 11:10:58 pm
content: ..and now the crystal nutjobs are at it...http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tarc-the-first-thought-phone?c=home

author: G0HZU
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2013, 11:32:49 pm
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on July 13, 2013, 11:10:58 pmThose things remind me of a brand of boiled sweets I used to buy as a kid. They were like eating little purple dinner platesI'm willing to help their project by selling them the rights to a large allocation in the 'thought spectrum' at a knockdown price

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 12:30:59 am
content: Holy nut job batman!

author: TerminalJack505
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 01:09:44 am
content: TARC: Take All Rubes' Cash.

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 02:45:02 am
content: Quote from: TerminalJack505 on July 14, 2013, 01:09:44 amwell according toParis Toseninventor, TARC stands for:QuoteMethinks Paris has a novel and private definition of 'attenuated', on second glance you nailed it terminal jack.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 02:52:34 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on July 13, 2013, 11:10:58 pmWhy not turn being bat shit crazy enough to hear voices to your advantage. If you are going to hear voices they may as well be from someone you think wants to talk to you

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 02:55:49 am
content: Oh, this is just great.I hate to be so cynical, and usually I get rather enraged at these scams, but really, if you invest in a thought phone, I don't think I have it in me to feel bad for you... It's just hilarious, that's all, perhaps in a dark sort of way...

author: 4to20Milliamps
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 03:30:51 am
content: Did he cut the bottoms off of beer bottles?If he'll pay for the beer, I'll drink it and he can have the bottle bottoms.I'm sending a telepathic message to him right now, we'll know it works if I get an email from him.

author: Skimask
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 07:40:23 am
content: If his thought phone really works, then he should be getting a handful of calls right now and his thought-message-box is likely full!Or maybe he's got thought-waiting?Or if he's somewhere else, thought-forwarding?Would you get a busy signal if he's thinking about somebody else when you tried to think about him?How do you hang up on a thought?What does a thought-"ring" sound like?If a thought-phone rings in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, did it really do any thinking of thoughts?What happens if you dial a wrong thought-number?Does the person at the other end hear your thoughts regardless?Who exactly is the thought-operator?Who runs the local thought phone company?Are there many choices when it comes to long distance thought plans?Are thoughts cheaper at nights and on weekends and holidays?

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 09:20:50 am
content: This sort of thing just makes IGG look like a bunch of greedy idiots who are happy to be complicit with fraudlent scammers. Kickstarter must be pissing themselves laughing.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 09:59:49 am
content: I believe he is just trolling around.Alexander.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 10:04:59 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on July 14, 2013, 02:55:49 amAnd it's likely not a deliberate "scam". The guy probably believes this stuff, and will deliver the actual device.It's like the golden ear brigade really can hear the difference between electrically identical cables.And religious people really can hear the voice of god in their head.This stuff feels as real to them as evidence based stuff does to us.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 10:14:23 am
content: Quote from: firewalker on July 14, 2013, 09:59:49 amYa think??From his TARC web sitehttp://www.tosen.ca/tarc.html,the very last paragraphQuote

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 10:19:43 am
content: Why is it no surprise that he's also a 9/11 conspiracy nut?

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 11:41:38 am
content: Just did........bloody telemarketers again. Them and the religious nuts keep calling and leaving a message to call them, but always no return number, just withheld numbers and completely bogus ones if there.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 11:48:09 am
content: Maybe they should spin off a new site for these morons - indiewoowoo

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 12:37:22 pm
content: Most communications regulations require that a phone (including the phone network) must allow you to call police/ambulance/fire brigade at their well known numbers. The FCC will take care about the TARC :-)

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 03:52:09 pm
content: Quote from: madires on July 14, 2013, 12:37:22 pmMaybe it calls the Thought Police.....I'll get my coat.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 14, 2013, 04:47:02 pm
content: You been commenting on the Register again mike...........

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 01:57:11 am
content: I LOL'd at this part:QuoteI'm not particularly sure why I found it more entertaining than the rest of it.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 02:33:53 am
content: Because they're using it as their "get out of jail free card" with respect to "It doesn't work for me!!!" Well, did you practice enough?Anything can be claimed possible as long as you clarify that it'snotpossible for skeptics.

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 02:40:56 am
content: Hopefully Verizon does not take is as exclusive, I'm with AT&T and I will not be able to get it !

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 02:47:59 am
content: Tosen's Update July 9 - The Tarc

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 03:51:51 am
content: Quote from: DavidDLC on July 16, 2013, 02:47:59 am"Comments are disabled for this video"I'd chuck in some money just to have comments enabled.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 03:52:10 am
content: Actually,we've had thought phones for years---they've just got some very clunky interfaces!I usually think before I speak!

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 08:00:04 am
content: I will only buy the TARC device when it enables me to do this to my colleagues, otherwise it is a useless toy.: (David Cronenberg's scanners)http://youtu.be/HY-03vYYAjA

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 08:14:14 am
content: "The transistor is over 80 years old"

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 09:06:17 am
content: Quote from: AlfBaz on July 16, 2013, 03:51:51 am176 views - reassuringly few people interested in this nutjob

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 09:09:53 am
content: Quote from: AlfBaz on July 16, 2013, 03:51:51 amLooks like they've taken off the $1 reward, otherwise we might have seen a few more of these :"Hey, I’m a physicist and I just wanted to let you know you’re bat shit crazy.Enjoy my $1.00."

author: vk3yedotcom
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 10:39:10 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on July 16, 2013, 03:52:10 amThat's nothing compared to the proven technique of human body teleportation based on thought waves.Many report that when one talks negatively about the boss to a collegue he mysteriously appears within earshot. Whereas positive conversations either do not have this effect, or do have it only if misconstrued as negative.Proof that it was brain waves and not the voice that caused his appearance is because he could only have reached his mischievous subordinates had he started his trip while evil thoughts were being thought.PS: The observance of this effect, ie that energy required to start this movement originates with negative rather than positive, is further proof that 'conventional current' in electrical circuits is bunk.

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 16, 2013, 03:56:26 pm
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on July 16, 2013, 09:06:17 amThat's just me refreshing the video page to get his hopes up.