Craptastical Technology

[Bells]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

One thing that DOES work that I was rather surprised about is LED light therapy. The kind that people generally dismiss because it involves "medical grade" LEDs. When I was in organic chemistry, the lab was pretty much always unlocked, so any time of the day was "open lab." I was in there finishing up an experiment and had just screwed up my knee again, but Scott, the guy who set up all the chemicals, had won one of them in a raffle and just left it sitting in the lab plugged in. I'd laughed to myself about how silly it was, but I tried it on a lark, and it really did penetrate into my knee, which honestly felt very strange. It wasn't "hot" or "warm," but it did send infrared in like they claimed and took the edge off the pain before Scott showed up and had a laugh about it. I turned it off in embarrassment. XD

My dad does light therapy as a community service. It's part of the schedule of the Spiritism temple he and my mom go to. But in their case, Placebo effects are really a big part of the process... although, yeah, it does have positive effects. Even if minor. It's not that different from a massage actually, you're just using and expecific method to "give a hand" to your own body to heal itself naturally.

I do belive in auras as in the sense that, we have energy. I mean, we dont know everything there is to know about the human race or our Biology. We have pretty much the larger part down just fine... but only now we're talking about our DNA in depth. So, im prettysure will find new things... also, Our brains are in a constant puls of eletric energy. And our bodies generate heat out of fat consuption, just like all mammalls. So, keeping this process 24/7 over your whole life... i wouldnt be surprised if we had a light layer of some sort of static energy/charge around our bodies. I Doubt it could ever affect the world around us, but since, energy reacts to energy... it would be plausible to understand where they come up with excuses to make these products...

I mean, just like at Pyros... his body reacts with/to eletronics. It wouldnt take much for someone to take that and create a myth on top of it, so they could profit.

[bluestarultor]

Frankly, I'm much like Pyros. Not quite to the point that I can draw on magnetic boards with my finger, but enough that I severely mess up TV reception and can adjust the picture just by shifting position a bit. Basically, when I walk into the living room, everyone just steps aside and lets me adjust the antenna to account for myself. I've gotten so good at it that it's almost a psychic power. XD

As for auras, we know they're there, or at least that something's there. We've tracked a woman's monthly cycle using electroplate photography (or whatever they call it), we can measure the radiation coming from ourselves from Carbon-14, etc. There's a lady in Wisconsin based out of I think Stevens Point who claims to be an aura reader and has developed a process to take "aura photographs" using two electric plates for the client's hands and some sort of special development process which provides some very consistent results with implications that she couldn't possibly know. There is of course the "color = personality" factor that you could write off as cold reading and Photoshop, but the local news stations went to see her when she was over in my area and decided to get some pictures taken. The pictures always show a bright spot over the heart for some reason and one of the interns had a second point of light on her belly. She found out a week later that she was pregnant. Now, the heart is a center of electrical activity, so that could be a possible explanation for the bright spots, but it at least shows that there really is something there, whether it has a "color" or not.

[Nique]

I know this isn't too unique but I am the only one in my immediate family who can tell if a TV is on when there isn't a signal coming through.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Nique

I know this isn't too unique but I am the only one in my immediate family who can tell if a TV is on when there isn't a signal coming through.

Like telling if a Tv is on or not, even when there is no sound and you're not looking at the screen? If so i do that too, but i think it has something to do with hearing. Like, catching a very weak humming buzz

[Marelo]

Originally Posted by Bells

Like telling if a Tv is on or not, even when there is no sound and you're not looking at the screen? If so i do that too, but i think it has something to do with hearing. Like, catching a very weak humming buzz

That's a fairly common perception, I'm lead to believe. Everyone I've spoken to about it has indicated that they also perceive it.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Nique

I know this isn't too unique but I am the only one in my immediate family who can tell if a TV is on when there isn't a signal coming through.

It produces a high pitch (read: squeal) that is very quiet. I can only hear it if I haven't been in jazz band in the morning, as I sit in front of the lead trumpet player. (For the uninitiated, lead trumpet players like to play very loud.)

My best friend, however, can tell if the TV in his basement is on from on the second level, his hearing is incredible.

[The Argent Lord]

Yeah, I can do that TV thing with a lot of electronics. Particularly when I've been away from them, like hiking or somesuch, but in general, too.

[Eltargrim]

Originally Posted by FenrisWolf

(For the uninitiated, lead trumpet players like to play very loud.)

Yes we do

Yeah, some of my hearing is a bit wacky. The sensitivity seems to come and go at seemingly random intervals, so I'm reluctant to attribute it to anything in particular.

[The SSB Intern]

A little late, but...

Originally Posted by Bells

It put's the whole Zombie-Survival Culture we have pretty much in check, dosent it?

Does anyone else imagine a zombified Tesla rising from the dead to sue these guys for using his name on their idiot appendages?

[Loyal]

I'd imagine he'd first run to EA for all the Tesla weaponry in CnC games.