# Dumbest product ever
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 2, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533 "2021-07-02T20:27:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/21 "2021-07-02T21:39:08Z")
Have Nasa or Elon Musk or someone already invested in gazillions of those stickers, to shoot them up and stick them to the sun? All this radiation!
ETA: ah shucks, somehow ninja’d by **Thudlow\_Boink**.
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### Author:  [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/22 "2021-07-02T21:43:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> > [@beowulff](#):
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> > The people who buy it are **not the brightest bulb in the package** , though. -
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> That’s because the dots are sucking up all the electromagnetic energy.
But if the dots suck the electromagnetic energy already before they buy it, why buy it at all?
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Bonus feature: if you stick one on your forehead, it prevents “them” from being able to control your brain through the COVID vaccine.
So you can take it? So it is good after all? Whoddathunk?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/23 "2021-07-02T21:45:25Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> But if the dots suck the electromagnetic energy already before they buy it, why buy it at all? -
The packaging blocks the dots’ energy sucking abilities.
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### Author:  [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/24 "2021-07-02T22:29:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> From the website(which I’m not linking to).
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> > **smartDOT® EMF Protection** by **energydots®** is a low-powered magnet packed with a high-powered punch. Programmed with an intelligent combination of harmonising natural frequencies, smartDOT is designed to retune EMFs emitted by your device.
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> Wow. Just …wow.
The funny thing is that my phone case has a magnet built in.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/25 "2021-07-02T22:34:26Z")
Heck, my phone (an iPhone 12 Pro) has a built-in magnet (to use with the MagSafe charger (which sucks, by the way)) and other accessories.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/26 "2021-07-03T00:05:29Z")
If the town is Shungite, shouldn’t the mineral be Sungiteite?
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/27 "2021-07-03T00:26:34Z")
> [@susan](#):
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> , shouldn’t the mineral be Sungiteite?
The village is Shunga. I think autocorrect thought I meant that word after spending so much time Googling the word. 😠
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/28 "2021-07-03T00:47:38Z")
Therefore I nominate Autocorrect as the dumbest product (especially when it autocorrects “autocorrect”).
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/29 "2021-07-03T01:01:58Z")
I like the bit of truth in advertising:
> Today’s world is literally FILLED with radiation… but this device “blocks” it instantly.
The first statement is true, and it only " ‘blocks’ " the radiation.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/30 "2021-07-03T02:16:04Z")
Presumably ‘radiation blocking’ is the next project of this company (which claimed ‘perpetual energy’! 😲):
[Steorn - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/31 "2021-07-03T03:19:56Z")
Funny–back in _my_ day you put stickers on the phone to _boost_ EM.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/32 "2021-07-03T04:14:48Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> The packaging blocks the dots’ energy sucking abilities
It would have to be this way. Otherwise, by the time you bought the product, it would have sucked up all the ambient radiation in the store and become fully saturated with all the sucked-up radiation. When you slapped it on your phone, or forehead, it couldn’t suck up any more.
It stuck one on my microwave oven. It sucked up so much radiation that my dinner comes out cold now, or even still frozen.
I stuck one on my forehead before I went to bed – I wanted to see if, by sucking all the brain radiation out of my brain, I could sleep much better. It sure helped me sleep! I slept until somebody found me and called the EMT’s to come, take the patch off of me, and give me an adrenaline shot to wake me up.
So it really works. Five stars!
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/33 "2021-07-03T04:23:00Z")
“Brain fog”…doesn’t Steppenwolf have a song about that?
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/34 "2021-07-03T06:09:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> It would have to be this way. Otherwise, by the time you bought the product, it would have sucked up all the ambient radiation in the store and become fully saturated with all the sucked-up radiation. When you slapped it on your phone, or forehead, it couldn’t suck up any more.
It’s like a desiccant for radiation. Or electromagnetic silica gel. In wooland at least.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/35 "2021-07-03T07:21:36Z")
No thread called “Dumbest Product Ever” is complete without a mention of the [Juicero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero) - the $700 “juicer” that could only make juice using DRM-enabled vacuum packs that sold for $7 per drink and could just as easily be squeezed out by hand without using the machine.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/36 "2021-07-03T12:21:57Z")
As seen on XKCD recently
> **[2478: Alien Visitors 2 - explain xkcd](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2478:_Alien_Visitors_2)**
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> Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/37 "2021-07-03T16:29:06Z")
> [@Keith1](#):
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> I’ll point out that people bought and wore magnetic bracelets by the thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) that were sold in convenience stores and other such high end retail establishments, to ward of any ailment that comes to mind. So why is it a stretch to think people won’t start snapping up these devices. Yes, people are stupid.
Or bracelets and other stuff made out of copper. Supposed to be a powerful anti-inflammatory that cures arthritis or some such thing. I’ve recently seen copper-infused socks advertised, which are supposed to improve circulation in the legs.
Or speaking of heavy metals, taking colloidal silver is pretty dumb. Some people think it boosts the immune system, but not only is there no evidence of it doing anything good, if you take too much of it you’ll be [feeling pretty blue.](https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-turned-blue-silver-dies-article-1.1466905)
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/38 "2021-07-04T08:01:08Z")
In Thailand, they have vagina whitening creams that are advertised prominently on TV. Really. I know I started a thread about them years ago but cannot find it now. [Here’s an article from _The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/23/thailand-vaginal-whitening-wash) though.
EDIT: Found it! It’s titled [“Ladies: Are Your Intimate Areas the Whitest They Can Be?”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-are-your-intimate-areas-the-whitest-they-can-be/635789) Heh, I even included that same _Guardian_ article.
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### Author:  [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/39 "2021-07-04T08:36:33Z")
> [@Keith1](#):
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> I’ll point out that people bought and wore magnetic bracelets by the thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) that were sold in convenience stores and other such high end retail establishments, to ward of any ailment that comes to mind.
To be fair, these things do have a strong placebo effect which the dots are unlikely to match, given that we can’t actually detect EMF.
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-product-ever/945533/40 "2021-07-04T16:21:07Z")
Oh no. I purchased one of those because I thought it protect from, “brain _frog_.”
No wonder it didn’t work.
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