10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets

Wired has the lat­est 10 Great Snake-Oil Gad­gets. This stuff would be fun­nier if it hadn’t already been done before. Many times before.

True story: One of the places I pur­chase Kendo equip­ment from sends emails that con­tain the following:

Body Level Tita­nium Neck­lace
New Col­ors: Pink, Aqua Black, and Blue
Get the Amaz­ing effect of minus ion power
 – Power up Mus­cle move­ments
 – Increase Blood cir­cu­la­tion
 – Orga­nizes elec­tric­ity flow in the body
 – Puri­fies the body
 – Decrease stress and fatigue
 – Reduce phys­i­cal stress on wrists, hands, shoul­ders and lower back
 – Enhances human brain activ­i­ties
 – Per­fect for all type sport: Mar­tial Arts, Fit­ness, golf, base­ball, soc­cer, bas­ket­ball, fish­ing, hik­ing
 – Avail­able in dif­fer­ent sizes: Small (45cm), Medium (55cm), Large (65cm)
 – You also can wrap around your wrist to use it as a bracelet.

I have a lot of respect for the owner, both for his Kendo and his tech­ni­cal savvy, and this does not seem like the sort of thing you’d expect from such a person.

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