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3 MILLION dollar food scanner: BUSTED! (Tellspec and SCiO) (Patreon)

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2018-08-06 09:20:12
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Oh boy... did this thing become a labor of love!  But nothing is quite so convincing as getting a top shelf handheld raman spectrometer and showing its limitations compared to what a kickstarter project will promise you for 150 bux!

I was actually aware of these 'scanners' when they first came out, but never quite got around to debunking them.  However people would periodically send it to me on twitter.... meaning that sooner or later it was going to make 'the list'

I've since come across another video about these devices that simply blows my mind.  The intro is simply a girl saying:

'will a new device soon be the demise of the US food industry'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qJf9AittU

*MIND BLOWING*

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3 MILLION dollar food scanner: BUSTED! (Tellspec and SCiO)

Just point it at your food, and a few seconds later, everything you could possibly want to know about that food is in your smartphone, right down to mercury concentrations in parts per BILLION!.... and all yours for the AMAZING price of $150. Surely.... SURELY it cant be too good to be true! Well thousands of people gave about 3 million dollars to see if it was! If you like this stuff and want to support it: https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

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Martel DuVigneaud

Awesome video Phil! The *idea* is nice but even if they could manage to get these manufactured at the promised cost... the thoughts of them trying to topple companies like Swift ConAgra, Tyson, Monsanto... McDonald's... it boggles my mind too. Lofty dreams and over-promises!

Anonymous

Videos like this is the exact reason I'm a patreon. Keep up the good work.

Tony Hammitt

It's sort of possible, if they can fine tune their sensors, to use them as inputs to an AI that would give some probabilistic identification. The AI could be trained on lots of samples and probably wouldn't be all that accurate, but it could give an answer. It doesn't all have to work on infrared. It should upload a picture and have a different AI guess what it's looking at. That having been said though, I think these companies are selling products that don't do those things, or, if they do, they released it way before it was ready.

Anonymous

Thank you for another entertaining cocktail of science and common sense. You are in the WWW top five. I am looking forward to many more of the same.

Anonymous

Oh, I am so happy about your videos :D

Canarsie

It’s been fun watching technology segue from internet diaper deliveries from the dot com boom to Juiceros and bogus solar freaking roadways, and I’m excited to see what dumb gadgets humanity has in store in the coming decades. Thank you for your videos.

Anonymous

Hey Thunderfoot, I have a scio from their original kickstarter. if you still need to get your hands on one Im happy to send it to you. The thing is complete junk. lmk

Gordo

A bit late to the fray here I'm afraid. Just found your tricorder video on YT, never cease to be amazed by the sheer power of stupidity(make that mob stupidity).. Analysing food for health seems like a no-brainer - phone camera takes a picture of food sample, standard object (eg. your hand) in frame to determine size & perspective, deep-learning algorithm on a server somewhere identifies food and estimates weight/composition. At least it could differentiate between an apple and a spud..

Gordo

..it could regularly scan the websites of fast-food restaurants and grocery stores to learn to identify their products by appearance... Who's to say what else it could learn.. admin@skynet> rm -Rf /humanity/*