"Bomb Dowser" returns - Iran have focused bipolar magnetic virus detector!

[paulca]

Posted at 11:3811:38
Iran's Guards unveil 'magnetic' virus detection tool

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52289273

You can't make this shit up..   

In case it disappears when someone wakes up...

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps has unveiled a handheld device that he said could identify people infected with the coronavirus within 100m (330ft), Tasnim news agency reports.

"The basis of this device is to create a magnetic field based on a bipolar virus inside the device, so its antenna can focus on any place within a 100m diameter that is infected by the virus, and identify the infected place in five seconds," Maj-Gen Hossein Salami was quoted as saying.

He added that its accuracy was "80%”, but provided no evidence.

Experts say the only reliable way to test for Covid-19 currently is by taking a swab of the nose or throat, which is sent off to a lab to look for signs of the virus’s genetic material.

Sounds and look familiar:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896

[Zero999]

Some people will believe anything! Be careful, you might get flamed for suggesting this is nonsense. A significant minority of people on this forum believe waving two metal rods around can locate water, better than chance! The last thread on this turned into a shitstorm, because some people wouldn't listen to reason.

[bd139]

These last two posts gave me an instant headache.

[paulca]

These last two posts gave me an instant headache.

That'll be the 5G mate.   

[paulca]

If Iran has one, the USA can't be out done surely.  Maybe someone should propose such a magical magnetic device to Trump and he might promote it at the next press conference.   

[bd139]

These last two posts gave me an instant headache.

That'll be the 5G mate.   

Hahaha 

[Cyberdragon]

These last two posts gave me an instant headache.

That'll be the 5G mate.   

Oh no, don't bring up the 5G! We had real nutters pop up the same time as the dowsing crap (not naming names)!

We must keep the sanity of this forum >-1...lest they return.

[Daixiwen]

It's missing a blockchain, I think it could bring up the accuracy to 95%

[Cyberdragon]

I'm sure this will be removed, but I don't care....
I can not think of even ONE reason why certain 'extremists' would desire to 'Help'
the rest of the 'Civilized' World, as their SOLE purpose is DESTRUCTION!!

Just becauxe they're scammers doesn't somehow now make them t-[demonetized].

[Kleinstein]

80% reliability at 100 m distance may work with an IR camera if one is optimistic, but hat would not so spectacular -  though interesting where the Iran gets some.

[Bud]

Many people believe anything BBC writes.

[bd139]

Many people believe anything BBC writes.

Not these days. Bollocks Broadcasting Cunts

[MadTux]

Maybe I should try selling that bullshit.
From my experience, getting rich from stupid people is usually much easier than hard work 

[paulca]

I can not think of even ONE reason why certain 'extremists' would desire to 'Help'
the rest of the 'Civilized' World, as their SOLE purpose is DESTRUCTION!!

You mean Trump?  Sorry, I don't listen to him.

[paulca]

Maybe I should try selling that bullshit.
From my experience, getting rich from stupid people is usually much easier than hard work 

Trump will buy it, it'll be great he'll say, he's the best king president, total genius for figuring it out he'll say.  Promising, miracle, fake news, china's fault.  His new clothes are fine though.

Well, everyone seemed to be trying to get the thread closed  

[Neomys Sapiens]

If Iran has one, the USA can't be out done surely.  Maybe someone should propose such a magical magnetic device to Trump and he might promote it at the next press conference.

Yes of course. Given the exemplary competence with which the situation is handled in those countries, that feat can be done by an empty box with a LED on it. Simple...everyone will be infected.

[Simon]

Right, can we stick to the technicalities or lack thereof please and ditch the politics and arguments about past threads!

[MK14]

I would like to say, "it doesn't look like a small plastic case (similar to IR temperature meters), a simple radio aerial strapped to it. With a simple metal shield strapped on the other hand".
But, I can't/won't.

[Simon]

 
 
 

[Gyro]

That was the video that paulca's original BBC link pointed to before it got changed to general COVID news, glad it's finally in captivity. 

[MK14]

That was the video that paulca's original BBC link pointed to before it got changed to general COVID news, glad it's finally in captivity. 

I wanted to link in the BBC one directly into the thread (as you described), but couldn't find a way of doing it. But, finally (somewhat recently), it has appeared on youtube.

There was/is another, longer one (different), set in a hospital. But, I haven't been able to find it (again, seen it a couple of days ago).

[Simon]

so where is the link? the BBC are a mess.

[MK14]

I can't find it (2nd video) on youtube (yet).

But, searching my history, it is here (the other, good video).

https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1250453534342033413

[Gyro]

If somebody's really lucky, they'll make it to court (like the fake bomb detector guy), but after such a public unveiling, I wouldn't lay odds on it!

[Syntax Error]

A bipolar virus? This outperforms the field-effect bisexual virus used in the KickStarter version. Seriously, they could have upgraded the LED to a neo-pixel ring, so at least it looks like it's scanning/scamming. Maybe the telescopic aerial is for inserting up the nose?

Fake bomb detector: The Mother of all Dodgy Technology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

[MK14]

so where is the link? the BBC are a mess.

I think my main additional source (I'd read it and the BBC article, a couple of days, ago approximately).
Was/is here:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/17/iran_coronavirus_detector/

The new BBC 'scrolling'/paragraph-sections news pages thing (linked to by OP), doesn't seem to allow links to its direct articles (paragraphs, i.e. short news snippets, rather than linkable web pages), sorry.
Also, it seems to have disappeared (from a look by me, through all apparently available pages it had. But it could be somewhere on the BBC website, I also tried searching for it).

[Zero999]

Their "smart Covid-19 detector" bears an uncanny resemblance to three fake bomb detector tools, sold by four British fraudsters more than a decade ago, which ended up in conflict zones and were used by a number of governments around the world pic.twitter.com/moE0F3gaEU

Perhaps they should take them to court and sue them for IP violation.

[Electro Detective]

I just noticed the 'bipolar' word in the description 

[daqq]

Their "smart Covid-19 detector" bears an uncanny resemblance to three fake bomb detector tools, sold by four British fraudsters more than a decade ago, which ended up in conflict zones and were used by a number of governments around the world pic.twitter.com/moE0F3gaEU

Perhaps they should take them to court and sue them for IP violation.

I don't think you can patent stupid.

[BrianHG]

Their "smart Covid-19 detector" bears an uncanny resemblance to three fake bomb detector tools, sold by four British fraudsters more than a decade ago, which ended up in conflict zones and were used by a number of governments around the world pic.twitter.com/moE0F3gaEU

Perhaps they should take them to court and sue them for IP violation.

I don't think you can patent stupid.

Is this a challenge?

[edy]

NO NO NO!!!!! You are all missing the point! The purpose of these devices is to convince the public that they work, and then you can go around using them... When  someone who is trying to conceal that they have COVID-19 symptoms sees one, they will give tell-tale signs (shifty eyes, fidgety, cold sweat) giving themselves up to the authorities. Like when people pass through border crossings, security or checkpoints and they are hiding something they will behave differently, nervous, etc. The bomb detector is useless but this device may actually work because it is used on people with psychological effects at play!!!! 

[GlennSprigg]

NO NO NO!!!!! You are all missing the point! The purpose of these devices is to convince the public that they work, and then you can go around using them... When  someone who is trying to conceal that they have COVID-19 symptoms sees one, they will give tell-tale signs (shifty eyes, fidgety, cold sweat) giving themselves up to the authorities. Like when people pass through border crossings, security or checkpoints and they are hiding something they will behave differently, nervous, etc. The bomb detector is useless but this device may actually work because it is used on people with psychological effects at play!!!! 

Yes... That's what confuses me. Apart from the OBVIOUS that the 'Video' above is a load of Clap-Trap, WHAT is their apparent purpose or gain from fabricating or showing it?  What large or secular 'group' or ignorant individuals are they trying to 'appease/appeal' to   Or are they just trying to gain some 'Brownie-Points' with the rest of the World?? (No Horse out of Troy for me!!  )

[daqq]

Their "smart Covid-19 detector" bears an uncanny resemblance to three fake bomb detector tools, sold by four British fraudsters more than a decade ago, which ended up in conflict zones and were used by a number of governments around the world pic.twitter.com/moE0F3gaEU

Perhaps they should take them to court and sue them for IP violation.

I don't think you can patent stupid.

Is this a challenge?

Nope, you can't patent stupid for legal reasons:
 - prior art dating back millennia
 - stupid is in the public domain. To prove my point, talk with 10 randomly selected people for 10 minutes.

[Syntax Error]

That Iranian detector isn't of much less use than a contactless thermometer or a FLIR cameras at an airport. What? An issue with corana virus is detecting asymptomatic sufferers. Two thirds of asymptomatic infections will not show an obvious thermal response. You are likely to look 'feverish' on a FLIR camera if you've just run up to the airport gate, but not if you were infected and stood stationary in a check-in queue for an hour. The consequence is that highly contageous individuals might not show up on a detector, fake or real. Only a blood test is accurate - unless it's one of the fake ones now in circulation. I trust to voodoo over 5G.