Iraq still uses a bomb detecting device that is totally fake.

Iraq still uses a bomb detecting device that is totally fake.

The ADE-651 is a device marketed as a bomb detector. It is used widely in Iraq for that very purpose, and has generated millions of pounds in profits for it's developer, Jim McCormick, and his company ATSC.

There is, however, just one problem: The ADE-651 is literally a useless hunk of plastic, and does not detect bombs, or anything for that matter. The product was banned in 2010 and Jim McCormick was finally convicted of fraud in April 2013.

ATSC built and sold the ADE-651 detectors throughout 2008 and 2009, advertising them as the ultimate bomb detector.

The specific claims were that the device was powered by "the body's energy fields" and it detected bombs using special cards that had been through "the proprietary process of electro-static matching of the ionic charge and structure of the substance".

In addition to this magic, the detectors were claimed to be able to operate at great distances (5000 meters from an aircraft) and to get around all methods of bomb concealment.

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