Oh no! I used to work on automotive safety systems. If that worked it would mean the invalidation of all our testing processes. Magic rocks, if they exist, would completely break our industry.
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At first glance, when I saw the article, I thought it was a bOINGbOING shop ad. I had to read the headline a second time.
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As a kid in the 70s I recall lighting a small neon tube put near my CB radio antenna during transmission. It was spectacular as it probably is today lighting a few neon bulbs with a cellphone.
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Agreed on the overall sentiment, and the power level, but (mid-band) 5G operates in roughly the same band as microwave ovens. WiFi, too.
Those wavelengths are non-ionizing, so neither will cause cancer, but with enough power they’ll cook your potatoes, or you.
The power level is the key difference here.
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I love that the pictures are just stock photos with some bad shooping of bad CG art.
It’s almost like nobody actually made any (fake) product to take a picture of…
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Some days I wonder why I don’t just start a fake church and sell stupid shit like this to idiots and get rich so I can roll in money and laugh at them.
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I wonder. Ford tried to sell me a magic electronic rust-proofing box with my car. The tip-off was that the guarantee wasn’t backed by Ford, but some company that wouldn’t be around for long.
“The same system as used on boats”… which are immersed in water and salt, and have a sacrificial block of zinc to make it work.
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Peter Brock had the automotive magic crystal thing sewn up in the '80s
One time they faked a UFO landing in his backyard and he fell for it hook, line and sinker.
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Well of course the tube ends aren’t demurred - it’s the fractals of the dynamic edge-mandelbrot that defaradize the lepton balance.
Dear oh dear, yoof of today and their feeble education. Get off moi lorn!
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It is AMAZING that device can reprogram EEPROMS, change the natural frequency of the cpu clocks and improve the conductivity of the wiring. Then it increases the torque and/or RPM of the mechanical engine. I am FLABBERGASTED that Ford and the other motor designers/manufacturers have not latched on to this! They need testimonies from the drag racing teams!. /S
Seriously, lots of people try to reprogram the calibration chips for our, Ford’s, performance engines. Go ahead, but odds are the life expectancy of the engine is vastly reduced AND we can tell if the chips have been yanked and reinstalled after a failure. That absolutely voids the engine warranty.
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Ford or a Ford Dealer? Two different things. Also Zinc anodes work but you have to replace them as they oxidize away. Part of the passive rust protection of the older cars was the emblems and bling. They were cast with zinc. That is why the salt rot would accelerate after the name plates fell off. If you replaced them with plastic, you got no additional benefit.
Back in ye olden days, when monitors were vacuum tubes, cell phones spit out multiple watts, and YouTube was still in black and white, I would keep my cell phone right under the front of my monitor (a large Trinitron). I was always able to pick it up and be looking at it right before I received a phone call or text message.
Wait, really? That sounds logical, but…?
GSM phones would do this. GPRS, not so much. You could also hold the phone next to a radio and pick up the sync pulses before and after the call.
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Sacrificial Anodes work in or out of the water as long as a clean electrical connection between the 2 dissimilar metals. Just add water or rather salt water. I am in Michigan and salt rot from deicing the roads is amazing. in the south, away from the ocean the bodies hold up longer than the engines.
Just a caution, make sure the metals do not cause galvanic corrosion. With the new aluminum bodies, you need to be careful how things are attached.
A good website on that. https://www.albanycountyfasteners.com/blog/stainless-steel-and-aluminum/
If it keeps these people from setting the cell towers on fire and/or shooting at repair and service techs, then it’s cheap at the price. (climbing cell towers is dangerous all by itself without having to worry about being shot at, attacked, or having your equipment set on fire.)
The possibilities boggle the imagination! Could it contain an entrapped demon? Perhaps inside it is a portal which siphons away EMF to a different universe? I’m betting on it containing a sacred magic cockroach.
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Mix a little truth into the lie. It’s the same nonsense that audiophiles fall for. Lots of pseudo science.
We definitely can make a few small tweaks to firmware to get you a lot more power. You’ll probably have trouble with emissions testings, and wear parts far more quickly. And catastrophic premature failures like cracking of metal put under stress and heat that it was not designed to handle becomes far more likely.
Those computer mods are a way for people who want a race engine without having to pay the upfront cost. Sadly the result is an engine that still doesn’t perform as well as a race engine, and wears out just as fast as the real thing.
