Everything Sensor: Difference between revisions
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* Clearly fraudulent, but cute nonetheless: one company in America makes dowsing rods that can detect anything from [http://www.skepdic.com/quadro.html lost golf balls] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105100600/http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html to marijuana in school lockers].
** Not so cute when used in life or death situations such as detecting bombs as [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896 BBC reports].
* The [[Wikipedia: Tricorder X Prize|Tricorder X Prize]] of the 2010s was a competition designed to develop technology that could diagnose a number of conditions in a small portable device. Nobody won the full prize, but strides were made. Certainly such a device would be invaluable in areas without access to full service labs or healthcare facilities.
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