EEVblog 1528 - I found a bin FULL of Dumpster Medical Devices! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 08, 2023, 10:46:25 pm
content: A wheelie bin full of medical devices found in the dumpster!

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 12:01:43 am
content: Dave can kickstart Theranos 2.0. He has all the necessary equipment

author: darkspr1te
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 05:57:22 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on February 08, 2023, 10:46:25 pmLooking forward to seeing you investigate the sensors in those devices.darkspr1te

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 08:28:13 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on February 09, 2023, 12:01:43 amI've ordered a turtle neck, booked a voice coach, and now identify as female.

author: max_torque
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 08:09:35 pm
content: The dual peristaltic pump things has "teasmade" (google it if you are younger than 40...) written all over it...

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 09, 2023, 09:55:53 pm
content: If you care, some of these have sold for thousand+ dollars on ebay.The webcam is hilarious though, wonder what it cost new, $1,000? $2,000?

author: Wollvieh
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: February 24, 2023, 12:56:03 am
content: Maybe the company that threw the stuff out was some marketing agency oder stock photo company of that kind that did the viral "grab the soldering iron by the tip" thing.So they decorated a "biolab" with models in wrongly buttoned lab coats doing strange things on those never powered up devices. And as the whole PR campaign behind those pictures costs millions, nobody gives a damn about some tens of thousand bucks.

author: oddbits
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 06, 2023, 04:35:15 pm
content: Just our throwaway world , mind you if you dumpster dive over hear you can get jail time for stealing... what a crazy world..

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 06, 2023, 05:28:14 pm
content: Here in the US dumpster diving is virtually always illegal. Trespassing. Theft in many venues, though who you are stealing from varies. In some cases the entity that threw the trash into the dumpster, in others the trash company that hauls it away (and is entitled to any salvage value).Fortunately, in most cases if you have bathed in the last day or two and look like you have eaten recently and not on drugs you will just be chased off and warned not to do it.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 06, 2023, 10:33:47 pm
content: Quote from: CatalinaWOW on March 06, 2023, 05:28:14 pmThat's not the case here.It is private property, but under lock and key and only accessed by the owners or tennants, and it's against the strata rules to dump stuff like this. The cleaning company in fact charges us extra to cart all the electronic and other illegal waste away because it's not part of the cleaning contract.So I'm doing the strata and owners a favour by being proactive and enforcing the rules and removing this stuff.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 07, 2023, 05:13:28 am
content: They all look to be related to optical analysis or chromatography of substances.Interesting,

author: f4eru
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 09:18:50 pm
content: This could likely have been dumped from the local distributor of the brand cleaning up returns, or by a candidate distributor that did not get the contract getting rid of demo units, or similar.