EEVblog #1310 - 5G USB BioShield SCAM!

[EEVblog]

The 5G USB BioShield is an obvious SCAM.
Please share this this video with Facebook groups and other places where you see this scam advertised.

A look at the 5G BioShield, a USB stick with magical powers that can produce a protective force shield around you and your home in order to prevent "dangerous" 5G radiation and "electric smog".
Also a look at many other 5G blocker scam products and talk about the safety of 5G, electromagnetic non-ionising RF radiation.



Video of the scammers talking about the product:

[Tek_TDS220]

Very entertaining video, thanks.  At ~20 minutes into the video you say that continuous use of cell phones can cause brain tumors, but using a phone a few times a day for 10 minutes is OK.  What is the source of this information?  Given that mmWave 5G runs at 24 to 100 GHz, much higher frequencies than 2.5 GHz, doesn't this provide fuel for saying that 5G is dangerous?  If 1000 minutes of 2.5 GHz is unsafe, is 10 minutes of 100 GHz also unsafe?  Or are you saying that heating causes brain tumors, and therefore mmWave 5G should be safer because the penetration depth is lower?

[johnlsenchak]

You forgot to mention the RF bombardment of WIFI signals from just about everywhere now and days 

A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds
5GBioShield uses "quantum nano-layer technology" to restructure reality itself.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/5g-conspiracy-theorists-sell-350-usb-stick-to-fight-electric-fog/

[EEVblog]

Very entertaining video, thanks.  At ~20 minutes into the video you say that continuous use of cell phones can cause brain tumors, but using a phone a few times a day for 10 minutes is OK.  What is the source of this information?  Given that mmWave 5G runs at 24 to 100 GHz, much higher frequencies than 2.5 GHz, doesn't this provide fuel for saying that 5G is dangerous?  If 1000 minutes of 2.5 GHz is unsafe, is 10 minutes of 100 GHz also unsafe?  Or are you saying that heating causes brain tumors, and therefore mmWave 5G should be safer because the penetration depth is lower?

IIRC I had a link in my previous video.
The frequency does not matter, the fact that you have a X watt transmitter next to your head for X time is what matters.
Technically high frequency 5G cannot penetrate as far.

[SparkyFX]

Very entertaining video, thanks.  At ~20 minutes into the video you say that continuous use of cell phones can cause brain tumors

This source lists inconsistent finding in studies before 1999, actually it was beaten around the bush back then, but even if there was a correlation, it might as well have been one on lifestyle choices and such (the use of cell phones grew drastically late in the 90s, at least here, studies before then might have been biased). This link is as strong as getting square eyes from watching too much TV.

There was simply no good data... the good thing about it is, that because of such studies with better statistical analysis, there is now more confidence in answering questions around such concerns. Cancer research made progress in the meantime as well. The theories around the concerns changed, now noting different frequencies and such, adding an unknown component, adding conspiracies and such.

Do studies provide unlimited safety or the truth and nothing but the truth? Probably not, as there are cases in which manipulations happen, but it's probably a lot better than what conspiracy theorists and scammers can offer.

[joris]

I went straight to their website to buy one but....

[EEVblog]

Part 2!

[G7PSK]

Well here is the Glastonbury councils report, must have had some pot left over from last years music festival.

[Artlav]

The symbol on it looks a lot like the old version of Moscow's coat of arms.
Which is itself a reference to the legend of Saint George and the Dragon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
So they paint themselves as the holy warriors against evil.
Or just fighting lizard people, i guess.

[Fraggie]

I wonder what and how much malware is on that usb stick..

[apomerleau]

Seeing the name of the good professor's assistant made me think of the TV series "24".  Maybe Jacques ("Jack"?) Bauer is part of the Counter-Terahertz Unit. 

[Gromitt]

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Custom-Free-LOGO-Crystal-Usb_62367890772.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.0.0.1728bf60RfAB4A&s=p

[ciccio]

Here in Italy we have similar sites.
this one for example https://www.geolam.info/.
some days ago newspapers reported that :
«Miraculous» anti-coronavirus (and 5G) bracelets and pendants sold online: the Antitrust Authority intervenes
The practices of the former engineer Olivetti Luciano Mion have been defined incorrect, deceptive and aggressive. The Authority has ordered the elimination of "any reference to the preventive and curative efficacy towards Covid-19" of the offending products
They are smarter: they sell a "biomagnet" that clears 5G, all forms of radio frequency "smog" and, at the same time, purifies water.
Have a look at the site above: you can red it in English, by clicking the Italian flag on top left and change the language.
It's a funny reading.
Best regards

[Syntax Error]

Why bother getting the word out about this scam as there are only two kinds of people involved with this global 5G hysteria; those who refuse to listen to a reasoned argument and those who just don't understand a reasoned argument. Either way, they are all #followers of the cult of the iron totem pole - the 5G tower.

Are you preaching to a minority who already get it? Using 'complicated' words like frequency and hertz will do nothing to change the minds of those who got lost somewhere in our new western intellectual dark age. Try using sock puppets, it's more on their level.

What next, 5G barrier cream? Start hoarding solder paste.

[Domagoj T]

I've seen that USB shield crap before, and even Glastonbury council making fools out of themselves, but didn't bother clicking and checking who's behind it, now I'm even more disgusted.

Dave, in an off chance you want to make an effort and pronounce his name right, here's a little guide:
Properly spelled Ilija Lakićević (or Илија Лакићевић in Cyrillic, since he's Macedonian), but if it's not showing properly for you, there are diacritics (acute accents) on both "c" letters in his last name. I would assume he's opting for simplified c due to his international aspirations.

Il - ilumination
i - tip
j - yellow
a - media

Laki - lucky
ce - check*
vi - vicious
c - check*

* It's actually a bit softer, more akin to how an Italian would pronounce the first sound in ciao, but not really important.
If you could string those sounds together, you'd be a whole lot closer to a proper pronunciation than what the guys in that chat did, not that he's worth the effort.

[richnormand]

Fun and entertaining video but a bit like "talking to the converted" I am afraid.
It will be interesting what your stats in views will turn out to be for this one.

"quantum holographic catalyzer technology" "nanoparticules" etc...
Now I know why it does not work. They forgot the proprietary secret mono-atomic graphene layer formulation to capture and polarise the 5G free-energy so you can also heat your home for free with it coating on the sticker ....

Any content in the usb memory or just blank?

Cheers

[jonovid]

We are so over, this whole CODVID thing  , we back to normality over here 

[FrankBuss]

Sven Boske posted a link on the EEVblog2 Youtube video (pinned by Dave) to a paper, where Ilija Lakicevic claims that pi is sqrt(10)=3.16227766:

https://www.ijsr.net/archive/v9i4/SR20409190322.pdf

It was painful, but I've read the paper, at least where it gets interesting. You can skip all the pseudo-science, on PDF page 8 he shows why pi is sqrt(10):

The existence can be expressed numerological as 10 where 1
stands for the beginning and 0 stands for the potential for
anything. In according to the holographic principle, PARTS
contain everything that ONE contains, and having in mind
requirements for the PI number, division by the PI value
must give the same result:
10/π = π; π = sqrt(10) = 3.16227766

So he doesn't prove anything, he just claims that pi is sqrt(10), because "numerological" reasons.

In chapter 3.2 he then squares the circle with just compass and straightedge. This is an old problem described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle

It was proven that it is impossible, because pi is a transcendental number. Of course, if we claim pi = sqrt(10), which is an irrational number, then there is no problem to solve this problem. The steps itself in his paper look good with this assumption for the new pi value. But you can prove anything when the assumptions are wrong, and pi is not sqrt(10), as many other real proofs demonstrate. I don't think he will get the fields medal anytime soon for this

BTW, here is his Linkedin profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilija-lakicevic-5a5ab966/

His education was "Physics, Energy, Palsma, Lasers".  To be fair, looks like he did some real research and has a PhD in physics. But in 2000 he decided to become a crackpot, or maybe he is just a scammer, but looks like he really believes all this crap he wrote.

[Domagoj T]

I tried reading that paper too and got a headache. Commented on it with a colleague and even he who is definitely not a technical guy immediately realized that you can't just pull 1 and 0 out of your ass, concatenate them to a 10 and divide by Pi to get Pi.

It was proven that it is impossible, because pi is a transcendental number. Of course, if we claim pi = sqrt(10), which is an irrational number, then there is no problem to solve this problem.

Apparently he managed to botch even that, because his drawing does not show circle and square of the same area. This is what Solidworks has to say:

The area of the circle is 10 709.1 units, using real Pi, or 10 779.6 using his improved version.
For drawing the square, I used lower left MN edge of the square to calibrate Solidworks to 100 units, and started drawing a three point corner rectangle from M, then N and finally K. The reason for L point not coinciding with my drawing is because the original square is not actually square.

I suppose there might be some wiggle room in my drawing, but I was keeping to the middle of his lines.

In any case, that entire paper is mind boggling. Light waves, crystals, mirrors, "Mystery of Gravitation and Radiation - Pull of gravitation and thrust of radiation"... Can somebody please explain what this part has to do with the problem of squaring a circle?:

Sex mates are two equal halves of one. They never can be one. They can never unite for they are the opposites of motion. Opposites of motion can cease to be and by thus ceasing to be they can give birth to the other opposite, but they never can be other than opposite. This is why if you have a male and a male-as in homosexual-no matter what they do to change appearance, etc., they will never be in proper placement to serve as sex-mates for sex mates are TWO EQUAL HALVES OF ONE AND NEVER CAN BE ONE.

Finally, check out the references. Each one is crazier than the other.

As for the "journal" International Journal of Science and Research, holy crap! No evidence of peer reviewer in sight. They do utilize "twofold dazzle associate evaluation process". What does that mean? If you go blind reading that rubbish it's fit for publishing?
They have approvals of other just as crazy organisations and give their own endorsements to crackpots.
You could spend hours if you want to go down that rabbit hole of circle jerk and pseudo science.

[FrankBuss]

The area of the circle is 10 709.1 units, using real Pi, or 10 779.6 using his improved version.

Interesting, thanks for measuring it. Of course the reason for the error is his value for pi, because even if you claim other values for pi, it doesn't make it right and geometry doesn't change. The error is about pi_right / pi_wrong = 3.14159 / 3.16228 = 0.99346, which is pretty much the same as your measurements: 10709 / 10779 = 0.9935. Might be interesting to send him an eMail and ask him about it, or what is wrong with the millions of other methods used which says pi is 3.14159. But maybe better not to contact a physics and math crackpot, it is a waste of time.

[EEVblog]

[FrankBuss]

In Terminator, Kristanna Loken was smarter. This is the webpage: https://thezorb.com They even stole the name, there is a company with the same name: https://zorb.de I just wrote them an eMail, maybe they can sue the other company because of trademark infringement.

[bouncingboffin]

Simple answer to this, get a Zorb and put an cup of water on top of it, then microwave the combo for a few minutes on full power, check if the water is hotter than when it went in... I'm not a betting man, but my $1000 Aussie Buckaroos feels very safe 

I found this unrelated product called CoolZorb 5G that is a heatsink compound designed to block RF https://www.microcontrollertips.com/coolzorb-5g-absorber-material-5g-circuit/ and they are selling this to *help* 5G product engineers with their designs...

I noticed that Anna Krystyna GROCHOWALSKA is a director of BIOSHIELD DISTRIBUTION LTD and also IMMORTALIS DISTRIBUTION LTD that company sells some third brain biome enzyme gunk https://immortal.is/ 

Oh read about the. WooWoo bulls**t in a Vogue article (I bet that's a first here!) https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/digestive-aid

"Ruggiero claims, the Klotho these bacteria produce in your gut will in turn, through “quantum entanglement” (when unconnected cells can communicate), instruct our bodies to make Klotho, too; not just that, his concoction will also make time slow down through “relative time dilation”, so that cells have a better chance of repairing themselves before they get damaged or mutated." WTF!?! a fool can be easily parted with their cash..