Craptastical Technology
 

http://www.lifetechnology.org/teslashield.htm

So, do you want to be a super human? It only costs $199,95! Or, if you want to open the third eye of your dog... or maybe enhace the psychic abilities of your plants...

Man, technology has come a long way... i mean, who would say that someday we could have our own "The Psychotronic Money Magnet™ Ultra Advanced Version 1.0"?

...what? You dont know what the The Psychotronic Money Magnet™ Ultra Advanced Version 1.0 is? Well...


IT'S REALITY ALTERING DEVICE!!

... also $199,95.

I swear to you. It's harder and harder to be a honest person in this world, when everyday im presented to the crap people sell and the shmucks that buy them...

So, what Craptacular piece of technology have you encountered?

"Ideal for Healers, Lightworkers and Channelers"

So its a charlatan ripping off other charlatans?

That's almost sort of maybe heroic.

Anyway, I have a mentally challenged aunt and uncle who believe that magnets can be used to decrease pain in their bodies, speed up healing, and even give their car better gas mileage (put them on your gas line, apparently). But instead of just buying some magnets at the store and only wasting a little money they insist on buying them from these stupid companies that charge an arm and a leg. Not to mention the hundreds of dollars they waste on herbal medicines from the holistic "doctor", but that's not really a technological version of charlatanism.

I went to school with a girl once who always kept a rock(probably lava rock, they seem popular for everything) near a computer when she had to use it for writing assignments. Something about how it kept the harmful electromagnetic energies away from her......that seemed quite retarded.

My brother-in-law got me a magnetic bracelet many years ago. One of those "healing power of magnets" dealies. Thing wasn't even magnetic; the "magnets" were just little metal discs.

I'm glad _mike never reads the forums, or he'd be able to rant for pages on quack science and medicine. It's a hobby of his.

Hmm.

I mean what exactly are you arguing here? Are you saying that energies and things like that don't exist in the universe? Or are you merely calling this device a scam? I'm not entirely sure which one you disagree with.

Anyway, I agree (with Tesla), for all my experiences with the world have taught me that there is indeed good energy, bad energy, good vibes, whatever you wanna call it. And so I believe it exists. But a device that can supposedly realign and channel them? I would very much like to know how it works before I even consider the promises feasible.

I have long ago realized I don't need a magnet for good luck or good health, as I naturally emit an electromagnetic field greater than normal, and sadly much of my electronics that are weak against such things suffer in my presence, or after being around me long enough, only work in my presence.

I can literally boost the signal of anything, from cellphones to radios to wifi, just by touching them, and I once messed with one of those magnetic doodle things just with my finger.

I don't know about all this 'health' and 'strength' crap, as by that logic, I should be able to leap over buildings and regenerate lost limbs!

Strangely, my first thought at seeing the device of the late Mr. Tesla (Maybe Brian should make a joke about how much Tesla's name suffers nowadays in Robo) on it's color and apparent size was that it was some sort of suppository. For the life of me, I can't think of why I immediately thought that, but it does occur to me that such a device would be a bit more effective in such a location.

Well, im saying that a Metallic Pendant/Supossitory with some Magnets and whatnot inside wont Facilitates Ascension, Increases Synchronicity, Enhances Manifesting Abilities or Assists Astral Projection And Lucid Dreaming...

Surely we dont know everything tehre is to know about the unniverse, not so many centuries ago, people would confuse a lightining storm, the wind blowing open a door or window or stuff like magnetism "the will of the supernatural", so, pretty much everybody trying to make a buck out of things that common science and logic dont agree with aint fine with me...

I mean, look at this...

http://www.lifetechnology.org/images/ark1.gif

This is The Ark. Know what it does?

I mean, bring on the Quantum Physics and Chaos theory, there aint no fucking way this is worth $999 or that it does even half of what it says it does!

Holy shit, immortality? This can't be a scam!

I like how these supposedly wonderful devices are only boxes or cylinders with different colours.

These things seem to be amazing business ventures.

Just set it up as a private thing, they cost like nothing and take like nothing to make (As far as time goes) and you really don't lose anything if someone says they'll buy one.

It's pretty win/win.