This item is based on no science and horribly overpriced, but cosmetically attractive and sneakily marketed. Shocking. They should diversify into premium Hifi. Edit.
Their previous business was diet supplements.
Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
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#82What I don't understand is that a site like BBC, doesn't actually harshly denounce it as a scam. Why?
The BBC is very proud of its neutrality, where neutrality is usually interpreted as "quote both sides, even if one is obviously crazy"
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#83If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…
I thought this was going to be a small 5G jammer. In 2013 someone was jamming GPS signals near the London Stock Exchange's data center [1]. The Economist's expert believes it was a truck driver evading employer tracking. My best guess is it was high frequency traders being shady. [1] https://www.economist.com/international/2013/07/27/out-of-si...
Of course a 5G jammer would do so by emitting even more powerful 5G frequency signals, but I don't suppose that would occur to anyone believing this rubbish.
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#84If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…
> Do people actually believe this nonsense? Yes. I have moved past thinking we need to protect people from this kind of thing. If they believe it, let them buy it. The only harm their ignorance is doing is to themselves. They might even get some kind of placebo reassurance from it.
The problem is this came up because this device was recommended at a town council meeting. The representative even argued for the town getting a device to protect the whole area, so this is far beyond just a private issue. Also there have been several cases of these people damaging or destroying 5G equipment, which is infrastructure the public rely on and ultimately pay for (through fees, regulatory costs, etc).
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do people actually believe this nonsense? Yes. I have moved past thinking we need to protect people from this kind of thing. If they believe it, let them buy it. The only harm their ignorance is doing is to themselves. They might even get some kind of placebo reassurance from it.
The problem is this came up because this device was recommended at a town council meeting. The representative even argued for the town getting a device to protect the whole area, so this is far beyond just a private issue. Also there have been several cases of these people damaging or destroying 5G equipment, which is infrastructure the public rely on and ultimately pay for (through fees, regulatory costs, etc).
In fairness, there are reasons [1] to be skeptical of 5G other than "it's a witch" or whatever the new theory is.
I think these people have a vague anxiety that new technologies do not further their interests, because every time a new one comes out it is used to depress wages or surveil people. They don't know enough about technology to formulate a sane objection, so they latch on to "5G is evil black magic."
Remember, for a lot of people in the world most technologies are magic.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-...
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#86If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…
> Do people actually believe this nonsense? It sounds like the kind of thing that Russell Brand was wittering about a couple of years ago Probably. My mum was a New-Age type, so I grew up with homeopathic pills explicitly labelled as “sodium chloride”, “silicon dioxide”, and “titanium dioxide”, while being told my brother and I were “typical” for our astrological star signs. She was big on dowsing with wands and pend…
Sorry to hear about your mum getting Alzheimer's and not getting proper treatment.
While everything else (crystals etc) is bull I'd like to point out to readers that chakras have some utility. When meditating they are good positions to focus on and can make it easier to drop your thoughts. Also if you pay attention to your emotions in your body they often occur at these points. I assume they were derived from this internal observation of emotions and then people expanded them to include all sorts of higher unsubstantiated theories.
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is this came up because this device was recommended at a town council meeting. The representative even argued for the town getting a device to protect the whole area, so this is far beyond just a private issue. Also there have been several cases of these people damaging or destroying 5G equipment, which is infrastructure the public rely on and ultimately pay for (through fees, regulatory costs, etc).
In fairness, there are reasons [1] to be skeptical of 5G other than "it's a witch" or whatever the new theory is. I think these people have a vague anxiety that new technologies do not further their interests, because every time a new one comes out it is used to depress wages or surveil people. They don't know enough about technology to formulate a sane objection, so they latch on to "5G is evil black magic." Remembe…
> there are reasons [1] to be skeptical of 5G
Not there.
The claim is not supported by the article you cite. The article uses a lot of words about "security" but the truth is 5G has no worse security compared to 2G 3G etc.
The claims about 5G in China "used for surveillance" from the article are also false, as China started installing 5G equipment just very recently, like a few months ago, and the number of 5G-capable phones in China is minimal. Whatever they needed for "surveillance" they could have used the older technologies just as well.
Edit: To answer "Is your point..." question below: neither nor, to both of your constructs. The article simply doesn't support its major claim, because all the "problems" they cite (security, surveillance) are completely not specific to 5G, and their claims of existing relation to 5G technology are obviously false, just as I wrote.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
So I wonder about legality of it - devices that interfere with wireless communications are illegal....so what about a device that says that it does, but in fact it does not? I guess the description is crafted in such a way that it doesn't actually say it interferes, just that it "harmonizes" the fields, whatever that means.
I assume there's no law in the UK against "harmonising all harmful frequencies into life affirming frequencies" since that's not a real thing. Laws against false advertising on the other hand...
It's does absorb the field and change its shape.
Not very extensively, but such is life.
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#89If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…
>Do people actually believe this nonsense?
people shove pebbles into their vaginas, of course they believe in 5G usb tr^^transmuter
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#90What I don't understand is that a site like BBC, doesn't actually harshly denounce it as a scam. Why?
The BBC is very proud of its neutrality, where neutrality is usually interpreted as "quote both sides, even if one is obviously crazy"
> The BBC is very proud of its neutrality
Not just proud of it - it must be impartial as per the terms of the Royal Charter and licence under which it is allowed to operate.