# Damn, I love quack medical devices!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556 "2021-09-12T16:40:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556/21 "2021-09-13T17:28:54Z")

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> [@solost](#):
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> I’ve seen commercials for socks with “copper-infused fibers” (whatever that means) that are supposed to do something wonderful and therapeutic.

Turn your feet an interesting shade of green?

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**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556/22 "2021-09-13T19:46:18Z")

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“_Are you boys cooking in there?_”

“No!”

“_Are you making an interociter?_”

“ **No!** ”

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556/23 "2021-09-13T20:11:02Z")

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> [@mixdenny](#):
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> **cold green laser** which embeds **4674** unique, beneficial frequencies into every unit…”

I do wonder where they got that specific number, 4674. It could be the wavelength of the laser in angstroms, although from googling, I gather that’s more blue than green.

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-i-love-quack-medical-devices/950556/24 "2021-09-13T21:20:36Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> I gotta start selling interociters.
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> Here’s one: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwMX77iWsAE-QXb.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwMX77iWsAE-QXb.jpg)

Further information:

> … the interocitor and its components are manufactured and distributed by Supreme Electronics Service, Unit 16. In their catalog, several optional models are offered. These include (but are not limited to):
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> - interocitor incorporating planetary generator
> - interocitor incorporating volterator
> - interocitor with astroscope
> - interocitor incorporating electron sorter
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> [This Island Earth (novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interocitor)

I’m especially interested in the electron sorter. If you could sort your electrons by size and weight, and let only the best, fresh ones into your electric circuits, you’d have the kind of ultra-clean electric current needed by sensitive medical devices. I bet that the Electro-Metabograph (in post #14) needs an interocitor electron sorter to work reliably. Unfortunately the Supreme Electronics Service, Unit 16, that makes them is located on Pluto and doesn’t do interplanetary shipping because of customs hassles.

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