10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets

Good piece, but I can't believe they couldn't come up with a specific 10th gadget. What about "Head On: Apply directly to the forehead"?

10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Q-Ray Bracelet

The FTC smacked down Q-Ray's "ionized" bracelet to the tune of $87m after the makers made deceptive advertising claims. The $200 placebo trinkets are still on sale, however â.. the ad copy just makes vague intimations of "wellness" and the like instead of specific medical claims.

Whether "ionization" even does anything, however, is a moot point. Tested by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at an electron microscopy lab, it found that the thing wasn't ionized at all. Even for true believers, it's a waste of wonga.

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