The next security scam?
 

I can see these being sold to screen baggage and passengers.

"Jim McCormick promised his ADE-651 wand could identify anything, including bombs, simply by waving it around with the right RFID card inside. Yeah, totally fake, and now he's in prison. Too bad Iraq already spent $85 million on them. Updated.

Literally, the $40,000 (apiece) devices did absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Experts think the insides contained nothing more than a dumb RFID card. Powered by nothing. Nope, not even a power supply. Just some snake oil, if that. $85 million!"

Read the whole thing and see video here: http://gizmodo.com/5455692/ade+651-m...illed-hundreds

How much you want bet that the $85 million didn't come from a US grant or such?

The bogus security equipment manufacturers are lining up at TSA HQ.

Did anything ever come of those two-way pagers that allowed TSO's to secretly send eachother pre-set messages? I believe TSA had orders pending for about $10 m of that garbage.

Heard that they were either replaced by mind reading BDOs or a flock of chickens who get sacrificed on the altar of security at any price for the reading of their entrails.;);)

What you say?
You mean to tell me my magic wand is worthless?

The updates near the end says it all:

Didn't anyone test these devices? How can the Iraqi's, after being told the devices are worthless, continue to use them?

Unbelievable !!!!!

I'd love to show some of them my magic wand, if you know what I mean... :rolleyes:

Is that similar to the Captain's Log?

Saw the vid some days ago; I trust McCormick was giving kickbacks to some Iraqi administrator, although all in all the money probably came from us.

I hope they go beyond fraud and charge him with murder.

Slightly crafty though making it like a old divining rod, which my grandfather used to find water in michigan (dig deep enough and anywhere will do).

A simple double blind test of fixing the rod on a tripod and moving explosives past it would prove it didn't work.

And then RFID "cards" to detect various items....again crafty.

Sorry for the guys that died though.

WOW!! I bet the TSA would be all over that hell, they bought the "Puffers" and the "Body Scanners".

Well, the whole 20 layers of security thing always struck me as like trying to build a helium balloon out of layers of cheese cloth.

Actually, it was $11 million, but who’s counting?

At this point I think Dog The Bounty Hunter could do a better job than the TSA. :D

I just watched a news story about it. Turns out they are still being used by those who bought them.

ADE 651
 

Here is ADE 651 website.
I have read all the sciencific explination from there but I didnt understand. Can anybody explain? Is it possible? What do you say about that?

No.

The device has as much basis in reality as homeopathy and Scientology.